Language, internet and platform competition

Platform Competition and Access Regulation on the Internet

We provide a new model of platform competition on the Internet to analyze the effect of Net Neutrality regulation on market outcomes. Consumers subscribe to two vertically related platforms, an Internet service provider (ISP) and a content network platform (CNP), to reach content providers (CPs). CPs interact with consumers via CNPs. Local ISPs provide an essential input: the Internet connectio...

internet and arabic language

arabic language has etperienced many threats from the very time of the advent of islam up to now. these threats are doubled in the modern time. among these threats we can refer to the we of colloquialism or writing in latin alphabets forwhich somer have reactrd positively. specially in chatting. the output of this process haslead to creation of a language called .the language of chat. microsaft...

Valence Competition and Platform Divergence∗

We study a game in which candidates for elected office first choose platforms and then invest in costly valences. The marginal return to valence accumulation depends on the degree of platform polarization—the closer together are the platforms, the more valence affects the election outcome. Consequently, even though candidates have no policy preferences, they diverge in equilibrium to soften val...

Platform Competition in Telecommunications

Demography and language competition.

Attempts to describe language competition and extinction in a mathematical way have enjoyed increased popularity recently. In this paper I review recent modeling approaches and, based on these findings, propose a model of reaction-diffusion type. I analyze the dynamics of interactions of a population with two monolingual groups and a group that is bilingual in these two languages. The results s...