研討日期	2022年6月6日上午10:30~ 12:30
研討地點	Webex online meeting (台大防疫規定所有活動與課程皆遠距舉行)
主講題目 Title of the paper	Cost-reducing R&D Investment and Network Neutrality in two-sided market
作者 Authors of the paper	Suttiwan Suwannajoi
文獻出處 Journal, vol.(issue), pp	Working paper
主講人	Suttiwan Suwannajoi
參加人員	Suttiwan Suwannajoi、Ayu Sasni Munte、彭正浩、Damiana Simanjuntak、Bui Dang Long、施姵全、Dong Van Chung、郭文忠、林燕淑、陳彥勲、丁虹仁、張瑞雲、許至乙、蘇家叡、黃鴻
摘要 Abstract of the paper	Conclusions • The literature on zero rating shows in contrast benefits between platforms, consumers and content providers, which lead to ambiguous total surplus. • We find that the platform’s profit, the consumer surplus, content provider surplus and the total surplus may become higher after the platform engages in cost-reducing R&D investment under no regulation rather than that with the regulation. • This result is of interest as it goes against the conventional wisdom from the content provider perspective for the favor to zero rating. • The result implies that the cost-reducing R&D investment improves overall agents utilities and the total surplus. However, zero rating may not be social desirable when the monopoly platform and competing platforms engage in R&D.