Usage Based Pricing

Analyses of Pricing Mechanisms
Empirical Evidence

Analyses of Pricing Mechanisms

How to price.
Nice site by Oz Shy on pricing tools.
Some FAQs about Usage-based Pricing (PDF).
Introductory paper by Jeff MacKie-Mason and Hal Varian that answers some Frequently Asked Questions about usage-based pricing.
Easing the Internet Traffic Jam: A Comparison of Capacity Expansion and Congestion Tolls as Competing Alternatives for Reducing Internet Congestion.
An honors thesis from University of Newcastle, Australia, by Heath R. Gibson, B. Com.
Market Managed Multiservice Internet (M3I)
The goal of this project is to design, implement and trial a next generation system which will enable Internet resource management through market forces, specifically by enabling differential charging for multiple levels of service.
Papers by Andrew Odlyzko on Communications Networks and Pricing
Several very interesting papers on the economics of the Internet, network pricing, utilitization, and growth.
The Bit Tax: the case for further research
Memo describing suggesting taxation of information transmital.
1997 OECD Communciations Outlook
Prepared by OECD.
Pricing the Internet.
A more detailed description of the "smart market" mentioned in the above papers.
Pricing Congestible Network Resources
A paper by Jeff MacKie-Mason and Hal Varian outlining the basic economic theory of congestion pricing.
Mitigating the coming Internet crunch
By Bohn, Braun, Claffy, and Wolff. This particular proposal (using precedence bits) offers a well-thought out plan to deal with Internet congestion in the near-term future.
Internet Economics
By Joe Bailey.
An optimal pricing mechanism for Internet's End-Users
Thesis on Internet economics.
Congestion Pricing
By Denise Hazlett, an economist at Whitman College.
Packeteer
A company offering QoS tools.
Pricing Internet Resources
Materials from University of Cambridge.
Two Central Substantive Concerns: Interconnection and Pricing.
Several papers on Internet pricing
By Gupta, Stahl and Whinston.
Center For Information Systems Management
Other papers on network economics.
ATM Networks
Another approach to a pricing mechanism by John Murphy and Liam Murphy.
Distributed Pricing for Embedded ATM Networks ,John Murphy, Liam Murphy and Edward C. Posner. This paper addresses the problem of bandwidth allocations in ATM networks.
The Design of an Optimal Pricing Scheme for ATM Integrated-Services Networks
by Wang, Peha and Sirbu at CMU.
ATM pricing
 
A New Approach to Service Provisioning in ATM Networks
A paper that examines pricing decisions in ATM networks.
Bay Bridge
a high-speed router with integrated accounting capability.
Billing Users and Pricing for TCP
A paper by Edell, McKeown and Varaiya.
One important set of issues is using pricing to influence user choice of type of service. This set of issues is discussed in:
The Digital Silk Road
A paper by Norm Hardy that describes a low-transactions system of "cash and carry for cyberspace".
Computational Economies
An archive at Xerox PARC has several papers that pursue an evolutionary and/or ecological approach to market allocation of resources.
Internet@crossroads.$$$
Can the Internet survive the transition fro a governmental protectorate to a free-market medium? An article by Herb Brody, found in Technology Review.
Agorics Papers
These three papers by MarkS.Miller and K.Eric Drexler appeared in The Ecology of Computation, Bernardo Huberman (ed.), Elsevier Science Publishers, North-Holland,1988.
Columbia Market Net
The challenge addressed by this project is how to accomplish quantifiable, predictable survivability of large scale information systems under loss or rapid dynamic changes in availability of resources.
A Model for Cost Allocation and Pricing in the Internet
By David D. Clark, presented at MIT Workshop on Internet Economics 1995. 
An Empirical Estimation of Time Saved on the Internet and its Implications for Internet Congestion
An undergraduate thesis by Brian Cooper, Southern Oregon University.

Empirical Evidence


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