Internet economics

The Internet has rapidly become an important element of the economic system. The lack of accepted metrics for economic analysis of Internet transactions is therefore increasingly problematic. This book, one of the first to bring together research on Internet engineering and economics, attempts to establish such metrics. The chapters, which developed out of a 1995 workshop held at MIT, include architectural models and analyses of Internet usage, as well as alternative pricing policies. The book is organized into six sections: 1) Introduction to Internet Economics, 2) The Economics of the Internet, 3) Interconnection and Multicast Economics, 4) Usage Sensitive Pricing, 5) Internet Commerce, and 6) Internet Economics and Policy. Contributors : Loretta Anania, Joseph P. Bailey, Nevil Brownlee, David Carver, David Clark, David W. Crawford, Ketil Danielsen, Deborah Estrin, Branko Gerovac, David Gingold, Jiong Gong, Alok Gupta, Shai Herzog, Clark Johnson, Martyne M. Hallgren, Frank P. Kelly, Charlie Lai, Alan K. McAdams, Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason, Lee W. McKnight, Gennady Medvinsky, Liam Murphy, John Murphy, B. Clifford Neuman, Jon M. Peha, Joseph Reagle, Mitrabarun Sarkar, Scott Shenker, Marvin A. Sirbu, Richard Jay Solomon, Padmanabhan Srinagesh, Dale O. Stahl, Hal R. Varian, Qiong Wang, Martin Weiss, Andrew B. Whinston.

Papers presented at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) workshop on Internet economics, March 1995 :.

Papers presented at MIT workshop on Internet economics : March 1995.

"Papers presented at MIT workshop on Internet economics, March 1995".

An introduction to Internet economics / Lee W. McKnight and Joseph P. Bailey -- Economic FAQs about the internet / Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason and Hal R. Varian -- The economics of layered networks / Jiong Gong and Padmanabhan Srinagesh -- Internet pricing in practice / Nevil Brownlee -- Flat, the minimalist price / Loretta Anania and Richard Jay Solomon -- Internet cost structures and interconnection agreements / Padmanabhan Srinagesh -- The economics of internet interconnection agreements / Joseph P. Bailey -- Sharing multicast costs / Shai Herzog, Scott Shenker, and Deborah Estrin -- Internet cost allocation and pricing / David Clark -- Charging and accounting for bursty connections / Frank P. Kelly.