We analyze pricing and competition under paid prioritization within a model of interconnected internet service … providers (ISPs), heterogeneous content providers (CPs) and heterogeneous consumers. We show that prioritization is welfare … superior to a regime without prioritization (network neutrality) and yields higher incentives for investment in network …

We analyze pricing and competition under paid prioritization within a model of interconnected internet service … providers (ISPs), heterogeneous content providers (CPs) and heterogeneous consumers. We show that prioritization is welfare … superior to a regime without prioritization (network neutrality) but yields lower incentives for investment in network …

two Quality-of-Service (QoS) regimes, Net Neutrality and Paid Prioritization, and show that paid prioritization increases … the static efficiency compared to a neutral network. We also consider paid prioritization intermediated by Content …