Konferenzbeitrag
Internet infrastructure and competition in digital markets
Large digital platform companies increasingly integrate vertically by building Internet infrastructure, such as edge computing facilities, content delivery networks, or submarine cables. These investments enable new services while changing their bargaining power towards the upstream supplier. I model competing investment incentives in Internet infrastructure for an upstream player (e.g., an Internet Service Provider) and a large downstream platform and its effects on competition with smaller downstream platforms without proprietary infrastructure. Investment incentives increase discontinuously both upstream and downstream when the downstream platform has the larger network. With symmetric investment costs, the downstream platform will invest more than a pure upstream player. I discuss the model implications for net neutrality, network access regulation, and efficient side payments between platform and upstream industry.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: 31st European Conference of the International Telecommunications Society (ITS): "Reining in Digital Platforms? Challenging monopolies, promoting competition and developing regulatory regimes", Gothenburg, Sweden, 20th - 21st June 2022
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
Vertical Restraints; Resale Price Maintenance; Quantity Discounts
Economics of Regulation
Microelectronics; Computers; Communications Equipment
Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
- Thema
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platforms
multi-sided markets
competition policy
net neutrality
Internet
telecommunications infrastructure
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hanspach, Philip
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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International Telecommunications Society (ITS)
- (wo)
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Calgary
- (wann)
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2022
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ
Datenpartner
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Objekttyp
- Konferenzbeitrag
Beteiligte
- Hanspach, Philip
- International Telecommunications Society (ITS)
Entstanden
- 2022
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