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-based discrimination. Opponents find such regulation premature or unnecessary, noting that uniform treatment precludes higher quality …
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such regulation is in all instances inappropriate or uncalled for. Instead, all we mean is that there are counterarguments … utility-like regulation of internet platforms is that these platforms can become “natural monopolies” which tend to forestall … turn has allowed entrants to unseat what were once thought to be entrenched incumbents. Regulation risks quashing such …
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This paper studies, using a two-sided market framework, the impact of regulation on platform's pricing scheme, on ….e. Net Neutrality regulation, will be more network users, more investment, and welfare is higher. If profit …-maximizing platform cannot charge buyers there will be more investment than without the regulation. If on top of not charging buyers …
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Platform businesses have been pivotal in the rise of the digital economy. Amazon is one example of a platform taking on the role of a quasi-regulator; an entity that is able to determine the terms of interaction on the platform. This intermediary position entails the danger of anti-competitive...
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The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...
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Infrastructure regulation has faced transitions not just in recent years, but also throughout much its existence over …
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Starting from an industry where production is provided by a public monopolist, we look at the effects on the consumers' surplus of a sequence of reforms in network industry. Using a simple comparative statics framework, we find indifference conditions in consumers' surplus between respectively...
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In an October 22, 2009 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the Federal Communications Commission posed a number of questions regarding the merits of price discrimination given the two-sided structure of broadband markets. The law and economics literature finds that price discrimination is...
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content and broadband providers. While proponents of such regulation may view it as protection from alleged anticompetitive …
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To date, the distributive implications of incentive regulation on electricity transmission networks have not been … efficiency under price-cap regulation have not yet been identified. To discern these parameters is the motivation for the … price-cap incentive regulation for electricity transmission. We find that a regulator's use of ideal (Laspeyres) weights …
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