This article reviews the growing body of research on electronic commerce from the
perspective of economic analysis. It begins by constructing a new framework for …

Traditionally, network operators have used simple flat-rate broadband data plans for both
wired and wireless network access. But today, with the popularity of mobile devices and …

We suggest an architecture for executing protocols for auctions and, more generally,
mechanism design. Our goal is to preserve the privacy of the inputs of the participants (so …

The two largest US wireless ISPs have recently moved towards usage-based pricing to
better manage the growing demand on their networks. Yet usage-based pricing still requires …

This paper presents the" allocated-capacity" framework for providing different levels of best-
effort service in times of network congestion. The" allocated-capacity" framework-extensions …

TCP and UDP, with each packet treated equally. The only difference between the channels
would be that they would charge different prices. Customers would choose the channel to …

We describe ways in which the transmission control protocol of the Internet may evolve to
support heterogeneous applications. We show that by appropriately marking packets at …

The Internet continues to grow as a medium to support commerce. Economic analysis of
Internet commerce is still in a nascent stage while Internet technology and use has rapidly …

Bottleneck facilities abuse by, 495, 496 regulation of, 480, 493, 497 Braden, RT, 306
Broadband Integrated Service Digital Network (B-ISDN), 10, 91 asynchronous transmission …

In this article we provide an overview of pricing concepts for broadband multiservice
networks. We review the notions of flat pricing, priority pricing, Paris-Metro pricing, smart …