Investment in Two-Sided Markets and the Net Neutrality Debate

This paper develops a game-theoretic model based on a two-sided market framework to compare Internet service providers’ (ISPs) investment incentives, content providers’ (CPs) participation, and social welfare between neutral and non-neutral network regimes. We find that ISPs’ investments are driven...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Njoroge, Paul, Weintraub, Gabriel Y., Ozdaglar, Asuman E., Stier-Moses, Nicolas E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Walter de Gruyter 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100978
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1827-1285