Simple competitive internet pricing
Simple competitive internet pricing
It is widely recognised that pricing is required to control congestion on the Internet. One lesson that has emerged from many proposals is that any price system should be simple and robust to competition. This is highlighted in the question currently under debate in the market for Internet services: should usage prices should be employed at all? In a duopoly model with overall positive network effects, it is shown that flat rate pricing can occur in equilibrium, even when the costs of measuring variable demand are very small
internet pricing, network effects, non-linear pricing
1045-1056
Mason, Robin
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2000
Mason, Robin
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Abstract
It is widely recognised that pricing is required to control congestion on the Internet. One lesson that has emerged from many proposals is that any price system should be simple and robust to competition. This is highlighted in the question currently under debate in the market for Internet services: should usage prices should be employed at all? In a duopoly model with overall positive network effects, it is shown that flat rate pricing can occur in equilibrium, even when the costs of measuring variable demand are very small
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Published date: 2000
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JEL classification codes: D43, L13, L96
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internet pricing, network effects, non-linear pricing
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Local EPrints ID: 33001
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/33001
ISSN: 0014-2921
PURE UUID: b6a82be0-126e-4ec1-b239-7a634d545424
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Date deposited: 18 Jul 2006
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 07:40
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Robin Mason
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