研討日期	2021年12月20日上午10:30~ 12:30
研討地點	國立臺灣大學710 討論室
主講題目 Title of the paper	Information and Network Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market
作者 Authors of the paper	Suwannajoi Suttiwan
文獻出處 Journal, vol.(issue), pp	Working paper
主講人	Suttiwan Suwannajoi
參加人員	Suttiwan Suwannajoi、林燕淑、施姵全、梁文榮、彭正浩、黃鴻、Ayu Sasni Munte、Dong Van Chung、許至乙、Damiana Simanjuntak、蘇家叡、鍾暳陵、郭文忠、高國峯、高國峯
摘要 Abstract of the paper	As traditional wisdom mentions a network regulation in a two-sided market is a better choice for the total surplus on a zero-fee agent. However, this decreases consumer surplus and the profits of the monopoly platform due to a pricing effect. In this paper, we consider the role of information on agents. This study re-examines the previous works of literature by combining two main ideas of network neutrality and the role of information. The finding shows the role of information has an influence on the monopoly’s platform price mechanism through cross-group network externality parameters. The presence of uninformed users, we find that: First, the network neutrality regulation seems a credible threat for consumers when the absence fee is on the other side. Second, the neutrality effect dominates the information effect in our model, the policy planner may decide not to impose network neutrality regulation. Third, competing platforms might always prefer to join network neutrality regulations for better profits.