We discuss network neutrality regulation of the Internet in the context of a two-sided market model. Platforms sell … broadband Internet access services to residential consumers and may set fees to content and application providers on the … Internet. When access is monopolized, cross-group externalities (network effects) can give a rationale for network neutrality …

Pricing of Internet access has been characterized by two properties: Parties are directly billed only by the Internet … service provider (ISP) through which they connect to the Internet. Pricing, moreover, is not contingent on the type of content …

The vast majority of US residential consumers face a monopoly or duopoly in broadband Internet access. Up to now, the … Internet was characterizedby a regime of 'net neutrality' where there was no discrimination in theprice of a transmitted …

The vast majority of US residential consumers face a monopoly or duopoly in broadband Internet access. Up to now, the … Internet was characterized by a regime of “net neutrality” where there was no discrimination in the price of a transmitted …

We analyze the incentives of internet service providers (ISPs) to break net neutrality by excluding internet … offering internet and voice services. Exclusion is not a concern when the ISP is a monopoly because it can extract the … internet where only one firm offers the application. We show that, both in monopoly and duopoly, prohibiting the exclusion of …

authorities) . On the user side of the market, prices are zero – "free." The other side, advertising rates are "hidden." Facebook …'s and Google's revenues are derived from advertising which appears when you go to their sites. They can extract exorbitant … privacy, political influences and advertising dominance. The argument for antitrust action against them is based on the …

for advertisers, platforms obtain positive margins in the advertising market. In addition, platforms' profits can increase … in the users' nuisance costs of advertising. As a general insight, we obtain that factors affecting competition in the …

We develop an advertising strategy for durable goods firms applying a dual time-period model while considering three …-stage game in a Cournot competition. We assume that firms employ two advertising approaches; one is online advertising, which … escalates consumers' willingness to purchase goods and the other is conventional mass media advertising, including television …

intensifies price competition. However, a profit-maximizing search engine imposes a distortion by charging too high an advertising …