E.g. networking research has ton of these kind of papers: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2006/estan06achieving...
They never go beyond modeling and simulation because, if you read such works, you can see that it is extremely hard to adopt such schemes.
Even between ISPs and content providers they endup with just 2-3 major pricing Tiers, because the added benefit if accounting more tiers is diminishing: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2011/papers/sigcomm/p...
