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This paper examines developments in market share, export structure and revealed comparative advantage within the EU and in comparison with other regions of the world. It pays special attention to shifts in specialisation and export structure with regard to manufacturing and services, lower and...
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This report offers an extensive analysis of the effects of the EU Single Market. It sheds light on four interrelated aspects: It first reveals the asymmetric economic performance across member countries, which also mirrors structural differences. These differences in economic outcomes are next...
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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 analyses the institutional framework for pharmacies in Germany and competition in that sector, which is … characterized by significant competition deficits. Based on our diagnosis and findings the advantages and disadvantages of two …
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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 studies competition in the German market for mobile telecommunications, motivated by recent suggestions that … they are disciplined by their smaller competitors' offerings. -- Wettbewerb ; Mobilfunk ; Telekommunikation ; kollektive …
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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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dieses Problem anhand von zwei aktuellen Beispielen und zeigt auf, wie Verbrauchsteuern den Wettbewerb auf Produktmärkten …
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