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Online media platforms have the characteristics of a particular type of market known as ‘multi-sided’. These businesses create value by bringing advertisers and users together. Access to user data is critical to this process. On the basis of economic literature, the features of multi-sided...
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This paper analyzes the way payments by content providers to an Internet service provider may affect investment in … Internet speed and content quality. It derives payment mechanisms capable of aligning investment incentives between the two …
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We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose …
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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 and the ISP charges them on the basis of the amount of …
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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 …
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In this paper we investigate whether markets with heterogeneous network externalities can belocked-in by old technologies even if superior technologies are available. Heterogeneous networkexternalities are present when some consumers care more about the size of the market share of agood than...
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We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers, might impose …
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We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers and mobile …
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We consider a heretofore unexplored explanation for why platforms, such as Internet service providers and mobile …
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