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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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The Internet has made consumer search much easier with consequences for competition, industry structure and product … profits. In characterizing sales distributions, our analysis is related to discussions of how the Internet has led to the …
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We empirically study a dynamic platform competition in the online daily deals promotion industry characterized by intense rivalry between two leading promotion sites, Groupon and LivingSocial, that broker between local merchants and local consumers. We find that, for a comparable deal, the...
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Telecommunications services in the US are not federally micro-managed. Internet service provision has enjoyed a high … economies of scale may lead to consolidation, and (iii) price-subsidies would probably promote Internet-penetration at the …
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How and why did the U.S. commercial Internet access market structure evolve during its first decade? Commercial … Internet access market structure arose from a propitious combination of inherited market structures from communications and …
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Written by more than fifty top researchers from economics, OR, and algorithm design, this text comprehensively covers a major inter-disciplinary field and its important applications from the basics to state of the art. Key chapters discuss efficiency, fairness and incentives, and market design...
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