Net Neutrality in a hyperlinked Internet economy

Calzada, Joan; Tselekounis, Markos

doi:10.1016/j.ijindorg.2018.03.003

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“…Since the 2000s, the sudden development of digital technologies and the exponential spread of the Internet Economy have revolutionized people's lives due to the simultaneous and progressive increase in bandwidth for web connections, first on fixed locations and then on mobile ones [1]. All this has generated a great paradigm change in society, which has influenced users' purchasing habits and the companies' way of selling products or services [2].…”

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E-Commerce Calls for Cyber-Security and Sustainability: How European Citizens Look for a Trusted Online Environment

D’Adamo¹

2021

Sustainability

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The pandemic has changed the citizens’ behavior, inducing them to avoid any real contact. This has given an incredible impulse to e-commerce; however, the complexity of the topic has not yet been adequately explored in the literature. To fill this gap, this study has a twofold purpose: (1) to investigate how European countries comparatively perform in e-commerce, and (2) to describe what are the most important challenges for the further expansion of e-commerce. To this end, we adopted a hybrid methodology based on multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and a Likert scale survey. The first method allows to us rank the e-commerce performance of different European countries, while the second one looks at the problems and barriers that characterize online shopping. The results of the study show that European countries have different sensitivities to the issue of cyber-security, and among them it is possible to identify three groups with different levels of attention to the critical issues of e-commerce. The Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark belong to the group of countries most responsive to e-commerce. This request is part of a broader framework of transition toward sustainable development, i.e., a reliable digital environment where citizens and businesses can exercise their rights and freedoms in complete security. Finally, from a theoretical perspective, this paper adds a new baseline to the literature on the state of the art of e-commerce in Europe that addresses the effects of the pandemic. From a managerial point of view, decision makers can find in the results of this analysis a support for the setting of business strategies for the expansion of firms in certain markets and guidance for public authorities when defining regulatory policies for e-commerce.

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E-Commerce Calls for Cyber-Security and Sustainability: How European Citizens Look for a Trusted Online Environment

D’Adamo¹

2021

Sustainability

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“…This communication aims to complement and support previously published empirical research [1]. E-commerce was already a relevant phenomenon before COVID-19 [2], but its growing trend has become more evident due to the blocking situation the world has been experiencing [3]. The increase in the number of online commercial exchanges has become more widespread globally, and with it, the security risks of online transactions have also grown [4], also causing impacts on the sustainability of supply chains [5].…”

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Methodological Perspective for Assessing European Consumers’ Awareness of Cybersecurity and Sustainability in E-Commerce

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The increasing European consumer awareness of cybersecurity and sustainability issues in e-commerce is raising key methodological concerns. In a field like this, still unexplored by scholars, it is crucial to identify reliable data as well as to choose the modalities of combining primary and secondary data. As the robustness of the outcome of a study on a complex issue is highly sensitive to the quality of the data used, this paper is a communication that aims to complement and support previously published empirical research. This communication describes the methodological path to collect, integrate, and process data from different sources to interpret European consumers’ attitudes towards cybersecurity and sustainability during e-commerce. In fact, COVID-19 has driven many users to shop online, raising concerns especially about the security of digital transactions. Scientific studies analyzing these effects are still lacking in the literature and therefore this paper aims to fill this gap. The limits of a rigid dataset such as Eurostat’s are overcome by integrating the results of European citizens’ behavior during online purchases, with a survey that involved some experts appropriately selected by the research team. The combination of primary and secondary sources of data and the application of a hybrid methodological approach using MCDA (multi-criteria decision analysis) and a Likert scale allowed new information that fills some gaps in the literature to be extracted from the data. How European citizens correlate e-commerce with cybersecurity and sustainability emerged, thus providing important insights for decision-makers.

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“…Finally, ω (x, µ k ) denotes the level of congestion on the network supported by a consumer. As in Calzada and Tselekounis (2018), note that from equations ( 1) and ( 2), advertising exposure a k i acts as a unit price paid by consumers to CPs; hence, the results derived from our setup carry over to a subscription-based business model in which CPs charge a per-unit price for content.…”

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“…In our model, quality is understood as investments by CPs in the attributes or functionalities embodied in their content. In addition, consumers bear disutility, per unit of content, from being exposed to advertisements, which, as in Calzada and Tselekounis (2018), interacts with the quality of content. The idea is that the higher the quality of content is, the more time consumers spend using it, the more they are exposed to advertisements and the more CPs benefit from quality improvement.…”

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Zero-rating, content quality, and network capacity

Lorenzon

2022

Information Economics and Policy

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We consider a departure from net neutrality by an Internet service provider (ISP) that financially discriminates among content providers through bilateral zero rating contracts. Zero rating is an instrument to distort competition between content providers and the way in which consumers value content. We analyze its implications for the incentives to provide quality in the market for content and to invest in broadband infrastructure. Zero rating makes content more expensive for consumers to access and implies a downward distortion of quality by increasing downward vertical differentiation. Content providers move from a minimal differentiation equilibrium to a downward vertical differentiation outcome. Next, we find that while zero rating happens to reduce congestion, a profitmaximizing ISP always underinvests in the broadband infrastructure in the discriminatory network. We highlight that this underprovision comes from a standard rent-extraction argument and a new costalleviation channel, which relates to the complementarity between network capacity and content quality. Finally, the ISP always implements zero rating, which is welfare reducing and detrimental to consumers.

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Net Neutrality in a hyperlinked Internet economy

Cited by 12 publications

References 30 publications

E-Commerce Calls for Cyber-Security and Sustainability: How European Citizens Look for a Trusted Online Environment

E-Commerce Calls for Cyber-Security and Sustainability: How European Citizens Look for a Trusted Online Environment

Methodological Perspective for Assessing European Consumers’ Awareness of Cybersecurity and Sustainability in E-Commerce

Zero-rating, content quality, and network capacity

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