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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: June 18, 2014
The American Economic Journal: Microeconomics will publish "Net Neutrality, Business Models, and Internet Interconnection" by Assistant Professor Byung-Cheol Kim (co-authored with Jay Pil Choi and Doh-Shin Jeon). In the forthcoming paper, Dr. Kim analyzed the effect of net neutrality regulation in a two-sided market framework when content is heterogeneous in its sensitivity to delivery quality. He shows that the merit of net neutrality regulation depends crucially on content providers' business models. More generally, the analysis offers a theory on second-degree price discrimination in two-sided platform markets. The paper is available at Dr. Kim's homepage (www.econ.gatech.edu/people/faculty/kim).