Subsidizing creativity through network design: Zero-pricing and net neutrality

Journal of Economic Perspectives

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 61-76

  Lee, Robin S ^a   Wu, Tim ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Columbia University Law School ^*  (United States)

^c NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 75749131593     PISSN: None     EISSN: 08953309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/jep.23.3.61     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (36)

1. Anderson, Chris. 2006. The Long Tail. New York: Hyperion.
2. Armstrong, Mark. 2006. "Competition in TwoSided Markets." RAND Journal of Economics, 37(3): 668-691
3. Benkler, Yochai. 1999. "Free as the Air to Common Use: First Amendment Constraints on Enclosure of the Public Domain." New York University Law Review, 74(2): 354-446.
4. Berners-Lee, Tim. 2008. "Neutrality of the Net." http://dig.csail.mit.edu/breadcrumbs/node/132 (accessed on November 11, 2008).
5. Business Week. 2005. "Online Extra: At SBC, It's All About 'Scale and Scope.'" November 7. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05-45/b3958092.htm.
6. Caillaud, Bernard, and Bruno Jullien. 2003. "Chicken & Egg: Competition among Intermediation Service Providers." RAND Journal of Economics, 34(2): 309-328
7. Cerf, Vinton G. 2006. Prepared Statement, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Hearing on "Network Neutrality." http://commerce.senate.gov/pdf/cerf020706.pdf.
8. David, Paul, and Shane Greenstein. 1990 "The Economics of Compatibility Standards: An Introduction to Recent Research." Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 1(1-2): 3-41.
9. DeGraba, Patrick. 2000. "Bill and Keep at the Central Office as the Efficient Interconnection Regime." OPP Working Paper No. 33, Office of Plans and Policy, Federal Communications Commission, Washington DC.
10. Economides, Nicholas, and Joacim Tåg. 2007. "Net Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis." NET Institute Working Paper No. 07-45.
11. Evans, David S. 2003. "Some Empirical Aspects of Multi-sided Platform Industries." Review of Network Economics, 2(3):191-209.
12. Farrell, Joseph, and Garth Saloner. 1985. "Standardization, Compatibility, and Innovation." The RAND Journal of Economics, 16(1): 70-83.
13. Farrell, Joseph, and Philip J. Weiser. 2003. "Modularity, Vertical Integration, and Open Access Policies: Towards a Convergence of Antitrust and Regulation in the Internet Age." Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, 17(1): 85-134.
14. Hagiu, Andrei. 2006. "Pricing and Commitment by Two-Sided Platforms." RAND Journal of Economics, 37(3): 720-737
15. Heller, Michael A. 2008. The Gridlock Economy. New York: Basic Books.
16. Hemphill, C. Scott. 2008. "Network Neutrality and the False Promise of Zero-Price Regulation." Yale Journal on Regulation, 25(2): 135-180.
17. Hurwitz, Justin. 2006. "Neighbor Billing and Network Neutrality." Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, 11(9): 1-33.
18. Katz, Michael, and Carl Shapiro. 1986. "Technology Adoption in the Presence of Network Externalities." Journal of Political Economy, 94(4): 822-841
19. Landes, William M., and Richard A. Posner. 1989. "An Economic Analysis of Copyright Law." Journal of Legal Studies, 18(2): 325-363
20. Lee, Robin S. 2009. "Vertical Integration and Exclusivity in Platform and Two-Sided Markets." http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/-rslee/papers/VIExclusivity.pdf.
21. Lessig, Lawrence, and Robert W. McChesney. 2006. "No Tolls on the Internet." Washington Post, June 8, A23.
22. Licklider, Joseph C. R., and Robert W. Taylor. 1968. "The Computer as a Communications Device." Science and Technology: For the Technical Men in Management, April, no.76, pp. 21-31.
23. Liebowitz, S. J., and Stephen E. Margolis. 1994. "Network Externalities: An Uncommon Tragedy." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 8(2): 133-150
24. The New York Times. 2008. "ESPN to Offer Sports Events on the Web Free to Some." February 4. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/business/media/04espn.html (accessed November 10, 2008).
25. Posner, Richard. 1998. Economic Analysis of Law. 5th ed., pp. 36-50. New York: Aspen.
26. Reardon, Marguerite. 2006. "FCC approves AT&T-BellSouth merger." CNET News, December 29. http://news.cnet.com/FCC-approvesATT-BellSouth-merger/2100-1036-36146369.html.
27. Rochet, Jean-Charles, and Jean Tirole. 2003. "Platform Competition in Two-Sided Markets." Journal of the European Economic Association, 1(4): 990-1029.
28. Rochet, Jean-Charles, and Jean Tirole. 2006. "Two-Sided Markets: A Progress Report." RAND Journal of Economics, 37(3): 645-667
29. Segal, Ilya. 1999. "Contracting with Externalities." Quarterly Journal of Economics, 144(2): 337-388
30. Technorati. 2008. "State of the Blogosphere." http://technorati.com/blogging/state-of-theblogosphere (accessed on November 12, 2008).
31. The Wall Street Journal. 2006. "ESPN Charges Net Providers For Right to Offer Broadband Web Site." August 1. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB115439535367922979.html.
32. Whinston, Michael D. 2006. Lectures on Antitrust Economics. Cambridge: MIT Press.
33. Wright, Julian. 2004a. "One-sided Logic in Two-sided Markets." Review of Network Economics, 3(1): 44-64.
34. Wright, Julian. 2004b. "Pricing Access to Internet Service Providers." Information Economics and Policy, 16(3): 459-473
35. Wu, Tim. 2003. "Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination." Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law, vol.2, pp. 141-179
36. Wu, Tim, and Christopher Yoo. 2007. "Keeping the Internet Neutral?: Tim Wu and Christopher Yoo Debate." Federal Communications Law Journal, 59(3): 575-592.