研討日期	2023年5月15日12:40~ 13:50
研討地點	國立臺灣大學社會科學院710會議室
主講題目 Title of the paper	Innovation and Network Neutrality in Two-sided Market
作者 Authors of the paper	Suwannajoi Suttiwan and Yan-Shu Lin,
文獻出處 Journal, vol.(issue), pp	Working Paper
主講人	施姵全教授
參加人員	黃鴻、林燕淑、施姵全、彭正浩、郭文忠、許至乙、蘇家叡、Suttiwan Suwannajoi、楊雅棠、朱宣宥、Bui Dang Long
摘要 Abstract of the paper	This research investigates how network neutrality in zero-rating regime affects the platform incentive to engage in Research and Development (R&D) investment under a two-sided market framework. Furthermore, we also consider whether or not zero-rating is social welfare desirable. Our main findings are as follows. Irrespective of platform competition, the R&D investment under network neutrality is lower than that without network neutrality. For a monopoly with endogenous R&D level, the platform and consumers are always worse-off with network neutrality. However, content providers and social welfare may be worse-off with network neutrality. For competing platforms with endogenous R&D level, consumers are always better-off without network neutrality. However, the competing platforms, content providers and social welfare are ambiguous. Moreover, we find there is a prisoner's dilemma situation regardless of network neutrality where the profits of competing platforms are lower after doing R&D. For a policy implication, the result suggests that this might be better to encourage the platforms to engage in R&D for more incentive rather than imposing the zero-pricing regulation to improve overall surplus.