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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital in Transition Economies

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large and persistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regions of four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and we explore potential explanations for...

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The Political Economy of Privatization and Competition: Cross-Country Evidence from the Telecommunications Sector

Colin Xu, Lixin; Li, Wei; Zhen-Wei Qiang, Christine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Using a new data set of the telecommunications sector on privatization (1981-98 for 167 countries) and competition … policies (1990-98 for roughly 50 countries), this Paper investigates the political economy determinants of privatization and … liberalization in the telecommunications sector. Building on the framework of a generalized private interest theory, we derive …

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Key Elements of the Reform of the Hungarian Banking System: Privatization and Portfolio Cleaning

Várhegyi, Eva - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper focuses on some of the major problems of the Hungarian banking system and investigates the possible ways to deal with these problems. It discusses the issue of bank restructuring, concentrating on the large commercial banks for which direct or indirect state ownership is decisive....

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Foreign Direct Investment and Structural Reforms: Evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America

Campos, Nauro F; Kinoshita, Yuko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms –privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization– as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …

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The Impact of 'Rollover' Contracts on Switching Costs in the UK Voice Market: Evidence from Disaggregate Customer Billing Data

Crawford, Gregory S; Tosini, Nicola; Waehrer, Keith - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

In February 2008, British Telecommunications (BT) introduced automatically renewing, or ‘rollover’, contracts into the …. This raises significant concerns about the competitive effects of such contracts in media and telecommunications markets. …

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Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)

Harbord, David; Hoernig, Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

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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Some Observations on the British and German 3G Telecom Auctions

Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

I suggest explanations for the apparently puzzling bidding in the year 2000 British and German 3G telecom auctions. Relative-performance maximisation may have been important, but the outcome of the British auction seems to have been efficient. This paper bundles my comments on two papers...

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Market Definition in the Telecoms Industry

Gual, Jordi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

assesses whether the general principles need to be adapted when dealing with the telecommunications services industry. The …

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Market Entry and Roll-out With Product Differentiation

Levine, Paul L; Rickman, Neil; Tzavara, Dionisia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper examines a general problem exemplified by post-auction (third generation ‘3G’) mobile telecommunications …

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Using and Abusing Economic Theory

Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Economic theory is often abused in practical policy-making. There is frequently excessive focus on sophisticated theory at the expense of elementary theory; too much economic knowledge can sometimes be a dangerous thing. Too little attention is paid to the wider economic context, and to the...

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