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This paper examines the causes and effects of mobile number portability (MNP) and provides a survey of its implementation in Europe. We first examine the competitive effects and the costs of introducing MNP. Next, we discuss how to charge for MNP. We argue that a price cap regime starting from...
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This paper analyzes how competition works in mobile telecommuncations markets and, bases on this analysis, we discuss … understanding competition in mobile telephony, is the fact that building a mobile telephone network requires highly specific … interconnection and fixed-to-mobile termination may give rise to competition problems. As we argue in this paper, closer analysis …
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This paper estimates demand elasticities for the Turkish mobile telecommunication market. In contrast to most other studies, firm level data is used to estimate dynamic panel data models including instrumental variable techniques. Both short- and long-run elasticities are calculated, yielding a...
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competition issues at the infrastructure level, namely margin or price squeezing of incumbent operators vis-à-vis new ISPs and …
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MRP prices leading to substantial cost savings for the transmission system operators. -- Competition ; Frequency Control …
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This paper analyses the extent of inter-format retail competition between supermarkets, discounters and drugstores in … finding contrasts with recent speculations by competition authorities that private label products may belong to a different …
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, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform. …
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, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform. …
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This paper discusses the general characteristics of online markets from a competition theory perspective and the … implications for competition policy. Three important Internet markets are analyzed in more detail: search engines, online auction … platforms, and social networks. Given the high level of market concentration and the development of competition over time, we …
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