Robert Somogyi will present his paper on August 28 at the 48th EARIE Annual Conference, organized by NHH (Norwegian School of Economics).
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Somogyi @ EEA-ESEM Congress
Robert Somogyi will present his paper on August 24 at the EEA-ESEM Congress, jointly organized by the European Economic Association and the Econometric Society.
Somogyi @ SING16 conference
Robert Somogyi will present his paper on July 1 at the European Meeting on Game Theory (SING16), organized by the Departament of Economics of the Universidad de Granada.
Somogyi @ Oligo Workshop Maastricht
Robert Somogyi will present his paper at the Oligo Workshop 2021, organized by Maastricht University, held virtually on June 4 and 5.
Somogyi @ 14th TSE Digital Economics conference
Robert Somogyi will present his paper at the 14th Digital Economics conference of the Toulouse School of Economics, held online on January 7th.
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Somogyi’s paper in the International Journal of Industrial Organization
The paper “Prioritization vs zero-rating: Discrimination on the internet” by Robert Somogyi (joint with Axel Gautier) has been published recently in the International Journal of Industrial Organization.
Click here for free access to the article until Nov 15th.
The authors compare two business practices on the mobile internet market, paid prioritization and zero-rating. These practices are tools for the internet service provider (ISP) to alter competition on the content market. Both violate the principle of net neutrality, but the paper shows that their effects on consumer welfare are fairly different. In particular, it finds that a policy banning prioritization (a policy currently followed by the EU and also the US until 2016) can lead to zero-rating (if allowed) and a reduction in consumer surplus. Finally, the paper also shows that despite the fears of net neutrality advocates about excluding lawful content, the ISP can extract more surplus from consumers by privileging the relatively weaker content, at least when asymmetry between content types is limited.
Somogyi @ NET Institute Conference at NYU Stern
Robert Somogyi presented his paper at the NET Institute Conference in Network Economics, held at NYU Stern on November 15th.
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Somogyi visits Columbia University
Robert Somogyi visited Columbia University’s Department of Economics to work with his co-author Wouter Vergote.
Somogyi’s project awarded a NET Institute Summer Grant
‘Deceptive Products on Platforms‘, Robert Somogyi’s joint project with Johannes Johnen (CORE, UCLouvain) has received a NET Institute Summer Grant.
The project investigates online platforms’ incentives to educate consumers about hidden prices that sellers may try charging them. When will Skyscanner or Google Flights warn consumers about large additional luggage fees? What are the incentives of Amazon and eBay to show shipping fees or VAT in the initial search results? The first draft of the paper analyzing these issues will be available in the Fall as a NET Institute Working Paper.
The NET Institute funds a number of scientific research projects in the area of network industries, including wired and wireless networks, “virtual networks,” electronic commerce, telecommunications, the Internet, platforms, and two-sided markets. It is expected that funded research will eventually be published in top academic research journals. The NET Institute’s board of directors consists of
- Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist, Google
- Professor Nicholas Economides, Stern School of Business, New York University (Executive Director)
- David A. Heiner,Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation
- Dr. Nathan Myhrvold, CEO, Intellectual Ventures
- Professor Ariel Pakes, Economics Department, Harvard University.
Somogyi at the Durham Economic Theory Conference
Róbert Somogyi will present his paper “Bertrand-Edgeworth Competition with Capacity Uncertainty” coauthored with Wouter Vergote (Columbia University) at the Durham Economic Theory Conference 2019 on May 16th. Continue reading “Somogyi at the Durham Economic Theory Conference”