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Liedorp, Franka; Mosch, Robert; Cruijsen, Carin van der; … - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2011

Following Eijffinger and Geraats (2006), we construct an index of transparency of banking supervisors that takes political, economic, procedural, policy and operational transparency into account. Based on a survey, we construct the index for 24 banking supervisors. There are large differences...

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Knowledge and Opinions about Banking Supervision: Evidence from a Survey of Dutch Households

Cruijsen, Carin van der; Haan, Jakob de; Jansen, David-Jan - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2010

What does the general public know about banking supervision? What objectives does the public think bank supervisors should pursue? We investigate these issues using a survey among Dutch households. First, we find that the public's knowledge about banking supervision is far from perfect. We also...

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Who pays for banking supervision? Principles and practices

Masciandaro, Donato; Nieto, Maria; Prast, Henriette - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2007

This paper focuses on the financing of banking supervision. Countries are classified according to who finances banking supervision the tax payer and/or the supervised industry -, and how the budget and fees are determined. We show that funding regimes differ across countries. Public funding is...

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Card acceptance and surcharging: the role of costs and competition

Jonker, Nicole - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2011

influences total demand. Survey data of Dutch merchants shows that costs, and competition affect acceptance as well as … their customers for using them. Merchants who face any competition accept debit card payments relatively more often than … merchants with monopoly power, and they are less likely to surcharge their customers for debit card usage. Intense competition …

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The relationship between local loop unbundling and the deployment of alternative broadband networks: An empirical analysis

Garrone, Paola; Zaccagnino, Michele - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011

This paper means to add to empirical research on the impact of local loop unbundling (LLU) on broadband networks. In particular, it focuses on broadband investment made by entrants. Starting from late Nineties telecommunications incumbents of several European Union countries have been required...

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Assessment of sectoral innovation systems approach: The case of Turkish internet service market

Tözer, Ayhan; Göktaylar, Yavuz - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011

The aim of this paper is to evaluate sectoral innovation system of Turkish internet service market by looking into some case studies and making interviews with related actors. In this attempt, firstly, a sectoral innovation systems approach has been described briefly from theoretical point of...

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An empirical analysis of the state of competition in OECD mobile wireless markets

Sung, Nakil; Kwon, Mi-ae - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2011

Contra the current trend of deregulation, mobile wireless markets in the OECD member states appear, until recently, to have been more or less concentrated. The study estimates the equations for market concentration, mobile prices, and profits using annual panel data from 24 OECD member states...

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Competition through Technical Progress

Jeanjean, François - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2010

The relationship between technical progress and price competition is a controversial issue in economics. This paper … highlights the fact that investment in technical progress is an authentic type of competition which benefits the consumers rather … than the industry. This type of competition exists when the potential for technical progress, which can be incorporated by …

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Assessment of First Comer Advantages and Network Effects; the Case of Turkish GSM Market

Tözer, Ayhan - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2010

competition. …

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Competition in bank-provided payment services

Bolt, Wilko; Humphrey, David - de Nederlandsche Bank - 2013

, it is important to maintain competition among payment service providers but data available to gauge the degree of … competition are quite limited. We propose and implement a frontierbased method to assess relative competition in bank …

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