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networks under various regimes of data roaming charge regulation. Given an induced externality of investments (spillovers) due … cost regulation of roaming charges. Otherwise, if MNOs are free to collaborate on investments, they set higher investment …. Furthermore, the paper discusses effects of the roaming charge regulation on roaming quality and MNOs' coverage. …
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We study how the vertical industry structure affects investment in network quality and social welfare, with a focus on the prospective deployment of high-speed broadband access networks (the so-called NGA). We model pros and cons of vertical separation, namely, pro-competitive effects and loss...
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The liberalization of telecommunications is largely based on the premise that increasing competition will encourage investment. The hypothesis that liberalization promotes investment has received the most empirical support in recent research. However, a key question that has been largely ignored...
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monopolistic prices, we model an investor's decision problem under a threat of regulation. We show that the mere threat of a … regulator's intervention may prevent supernormal profits without actual price regulation. The regulator, on the other hand, can … influence both the investment decision and the investor's price via her signals on regulation probability and price. …
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This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; networkbased price discrimination; and call externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower...
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practitioners and economists, taking the existing regulatory environment as fixed. Based on the degree of existing regulation (full …
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Although we have many tools to understand the effect of regulation on firm entry, we know little about the importance … of actual regulation enforcement. For this purpose, this paper uses data from Spain's local television industry from 1995 … regulation and a posterior liberalization. During this period, the local television industry transitioned from a state of …
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This paper contributes to the policy debate about the optimal termination charge when penetration rates are explicitly taken into account. Although lowering termination charges towards cost leads to more efficient usage, its impact on consumer surplus is ambiguous since it induces an increase in...
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structures. The investment return in terms of demand increase is uncertain. We compare the impact of different access regulation … regimes – full regulation, partial regulation (only the copper network is regulated), risk sharing – on investment incentives …
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This paper analyses the determinants of broadband Internet access prices in a group of 15 EU countries between 2008 and 2011. Using a rich panel data set of broadband plans, we find a positive effect of downstream speed on prices, and that the price per Mbps of cable modem and fibre technologies...
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