Instruct: Identify the main and secondary category of Arxiv papers based on the titles and abstracts
Query: Welfare Analysis of Network Neutrality Regulation   Consumers of Internet content typically pay an Internet Service Provider
(ISP) to connect to the Internet. A content provider (CP) may charge consumers
for its content or may earn via advertising revenue. In such settings, a matter
of continuing debate, under the umbrella of net neutrality regulations, is
whether an ISP serving a consumer may in addition charge the CPs not directly
connected to the ISP for delivering their content to consumers connected to the
ISP. We attempt an answer by looking at the problem through the lens of a
regulator whose mandate is to maximize the cumulative welfare of ISPs, CPs, and
consumers.
  Specifically, we consider a two-sided market model, in which a local monopoly
ISP prices Internet access to consumers and possibly to CPs as well. The CPs
then decide whether to enter a competitive but differentiated market and the
consumers decide whether to connect to the ISP. Unlike prior works, we model
competition between the CPs together with consumer valuation of content and
quality-of-service provided by the ISP. We do so by using a novel fusion of
classical spatial differentiation models, namely the Hotelling and the Salop
models, in addition to simple queue theoretic delay modeling. Via extensive
simulations, we show that the equilibrium in the non-neutral setting that
allows an ISP to charge a CP welfare-dominates the neutral equilibrium.

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The categories of this paper are: mtrl-th
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The categories of this paper are: bayes-an
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The categories of this paper are: patt-sol
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The categories of this paper are: econ
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The categories of this paper are: cmp-lg
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The categories of this paper are: hep-th
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The categories of this paper are: stat
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The categories of this paper are: chao-dyn
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The categories of this paper are: ao-sci
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The categories of this paper are: chem-ph
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The categories of this paper are: acc-phys
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The categories of this paper are: comp-gas
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The categories of this paper are: atom-ph
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The categories of this paper are: adap-org
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The categories of this paper are: cond-mat
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The categories of this paper are: plasm-ph