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Gagnepain, Philippe; Uribe, Marín; Luis, Pedro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

efficiency, taking into account the regulatory changes that have affected the European airline industry. We construct and …

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Structural Adjustment in European Retail Banking: Some Views from Industrial Organisation

Neven, Damien J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

process of competitive deregulation. We find that deregulation should induce more price competition. In turn, this will affect …

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Credit Risk Transfer and Financial Sector Performance

Marsh, Ian W; Wagner, Wolf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

In this Paper we study the impact of credit risk transfer (CRT) on the stability and the efficiency of a financial …

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Foreign Direct Investment, Competitive Pressure and Spillovers. An Empirical Analysis of Spanish Firm Level Data

Sembenelli, Alessandro; Siotis, Georges - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

potential to increase the intensity of competition as well as to act as a channel for technology transfers. One would expect …) enjoy higher levels of efficiency and have the potential to generate positive spillovers. At the same time, the entry of …

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Entry, Cost Reduction and Competition in The Portuguese Mobile Telephone Industry

Gagnepain, Philippe; Pereira, Pedro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We study the effect of entry on costs and competition in the Portuguese mobile telephony industry. We construct and … effort. We show that failure to account for cost reducing effort leads to biased estimates of competition in the industry. We … significant cost reductions, and fostered competition. …

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Competition with Local Network Externalities

Fjeldstad, Øystein; Moen, Espen R; Riis, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

local network externalities, in contrast to global network externalities, don't necessarily sharpen competition. Then we …

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Assessing the impact of Mali’s water privatization across stakeholders

Estache, Antonio; Grifell-Tatjé, Emili - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

shows that taxpayers are the main losers as subsidies are still needed. There are also serious efficiency-equity trade …

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Unbundling the incumbent: Evidence from UK broadband

Nardotto, Mattia; Valletti, Tommaso; Verboven, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

technology (cable) which is not subject to regulation, and what we discover is that inter-platform competition has a positive … positive impact on the quality of the service provided. We also assess the impact of competition from an alternative form of …

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Cable Regulation in the Internet Era

Crawford, Gregory S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

television regulation in light of these developments. It surveys the dismal empirical record on the effects of price regulation … in cable and the more encouraging but incomplete evidence on the benefits of satellite and telco competition. It …

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Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education

Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...

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