Net Neutrality, Business Models, and Internet Interconnection

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Choi, Jay Pil; Jeon, Doh-Shin; Kim, Byung-Cheol
• 署名单位: University of New South Wales Sydney; Michigan State University; Yonsei University; Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Toulouse School of Economics; Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU); University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-MICROECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7669
• DOI: 10.1257/mic.20130162
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 104-141
• 关键词: network competition; termination; ECONOMICS; PRINCIPLE

摘要

We analyze the effect of net neutrality regulation in a two-sided market framework when content is heterogeneous in its sensitivity to delivery quality. We characterize the equilibrium in a neutral network constrained to offer the same quality vis-a-vis a nonneutral network where Internet service providers are allowed to engage in second-degree price discrimination with a menu of quality-price pairs. We find that the merit of net neutrality regulation depends crucially on content providers' business models. More generally, our analysis can be considered a contribution to the literature on second-degree price discrimination in two-sided platform markets.