Fear of Discrimination: Net Neutrality and Product Differentiation on the Internet

IF 0.9 4区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

Review of Network Economics Pub Date : 2016-01-01 DOI:10.1515/rne-2017-0010

Xingyi Liu

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Abstract

Abstract We study the impact of net neutrality on the content market with endogenous product differentiation. We show that when the Internet service provider is allowed to offer different connection qualities to content providers, it has incentives to favor contents that have a broader market feature. This biases content providers towards choosing those broader products, which may result in too little product differentiation in the content market. By eliminating the possibility of discrimination, net neutrality can reduce such distortion in the content market, and induce more efficient product choices. Net neutrality also raises social welfare if the extent of discrimination is relatively small compared to the extent of product differentiation.

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对歧视的恐惧:互联网上的网络中立性和产品差异化

摘要本文研究了网络中立性对内容市场内生产品差异化的影响。我们表明，当互联网服务提供商被允许向内容提供商提供不同的连接质量时，它有动力支持具有更广泛市场特征的内容。这使得内容提供商倾向于选择那些更广泛的产品，这可能导致内容市场上的产品差异过小。通过消除歧视的可能性，网络中立性可以减少内容市场中的这种扭曲，并诱导更有效的产品选择。如果与产品差异化的程度相比，歧视的程度相对较小，网络中立性也会提高社会福利。

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