研討日期

2008104  10:10 ~ 14:00

研討地點

台大社會科學院經濟系館二樓會議室

討論題目

 

 

 

題目

作者

文獻出處

Net Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis

Nicholas Economides and Joacim Tag

Working paper

報告人

張志偉

參加人員

黃鴻 梁文榮 林燕淑 吳世傑 陳宏易 陳更生 張民忠 張瑞雲 蔡明芳 林大鈞 王佳琪 林晏如 涂光億 丁虹仁 陳金盛 李依珊 張志偉 高國峰

討論提要

We discuss the benefits of net neutrality regulation in the context of a two-sided market model in which platforms sell Internet access services to consumers and may set fees to content and applications providers “on the other side” of the Internet. We also discuss the incentives of duopolists to collude in setting the fees “on the other side” of the Internet while competing for Internet access customers. Additionally, we discuss how price and non-price discrimination strategies may be used once net neutrality is abolished. Finally, we discuss how the results generalize to other two-sided markets.

討論結果與建議

When access is monopolized, we find that generally net neutrality regulation (that imposes zero fees “on the other side” of the market) increases total industry surplus compared to the fully private optimum at which the monopoly platform imposes positive fees on content and applications providers. Similarly, we find that imposing net neutrality in duopoly increases total surplus compared to duopoly competition between platforms that charge positive fees on content providers.

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