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Economic FAQs About the Internet

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Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason (The University of Michigan)
Hal R. Varian (The University of California, Berkeley)

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This is a set of Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) about the economic, institutional, and technological structure of the Internet. We describe the history and current state of the Internet, discuss some of the pressing economic and regulatory problems, and speculate about future developments.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Industrial Organization with number 9606001.

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Length: 28 pages
Date of creation: 03 Jun 1996
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Handle: RePEc:wpa:wuwpio:9606001

Note: Type of Document - PDF; prepared on Windows; to print on Postscript; pages: 28 ; figures: none. This is a recently re-edited but largely unchanged version of our 1995 paper. Various updates have been published in several places, including the Journal of Economic Perspectives, and soon in Internet Economics, eds. J. Bailey and L. McKnight, MIT Press
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Keywords: Internet; telecommunications; congestion pricing; National Information Infrastructure;

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D40 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure and Pricing - - - General
L10 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - General
L96 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Telecommunications

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  1. Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason & Liam Murphy & John Murphy, 1996. "The Role of Responsive Pricing in the Internet," Microeconomics 9606001, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
  2. Michael Carter & Graeme Guthrie, . "Pricing Internet: The New Zealand Experience," Working Papers 9501, University of Canterbury, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  3. Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason & Hal R. Varian, 1994. "Some Economics of the Internet," Computational Economics 9401001, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason & Hal R. Varian, 1994. "Pricing the Internet," Computational Economics 9401002, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
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  1. Christopher Avery & Paul Resnick & Richard Zeckhauser, 1999. "The Market for Evaluations," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 89(3), pages 564-584, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Oystein Foros & Hans Kind & Lars Sørgard, 2003. "Access Pricing, Quality Degradation, and Foreclosure in the Internet," University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series wp7-00, Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Sieber, Sandra & Valor, Josep, 2002. "Market bundling strategies in the horizontal portal industry," IESE Research Papers D/480, IESE Business School. [Downloadable!]
  4. Eric Friedman, 1998. "Learnability of a class of Non-atomic Games arising on the Internet," Departmental Working Papers 199824, Rutgers University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  5. Carsten Schmidt & Tobias Uske, 2004. "Reputationsmechanismen für Informationsgüter auf Internet-Meinungsportalen," Papers on Strategic Interaction 2004-13, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Strategic Interaction Group. [Downloadable!]
  6. Paul A. David, 2001. "The Beginnings and Prospective Ending of “End-to-End”," Working Papers 01012, Stanford University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  7. Langinier, Corinne & Marcoul, Philippe, 2005. "Contributory Infringement Rule and Patents," Staff General Research Papers 12268, Iowa State University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
  8. Paul A. David, 2005. "The Beginnings and Prospective Ending of “End-to-End”: An Evolutionary Perspective On the Internet’s Architecture," Industrial Organization 0502012, EconWPA. [Downloadable!]
  9. Michael Reutter, 2001. "Regulation and Internet Access in Germany," CESifo Working Paper Series CESifo Working Paper No. , CESifo Group Munich. [Downloadable!]
  10. Madden, Gary G & Savage, Scott J, 2000. "Some economic and social aspects of residential internet use in Australia," MPRA Paper 11158, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
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