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Behind the Scenes of the Telecommunications Miracle: An Empirical Analysis of the Indian Market
Biancini, Sara - CESifo - 2010
penetration, identifying a (positive) network effect in low penetration areas and some evidence of substitution (displacement) in … competition on investment: competition seemingly helps stimulating investment in the most developed areas, but has probably no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833905
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Capital Structure and Regulation in U.S. Local Telephony: An Exploratory Econometric Study
Resende, Marcelo - CESifo - 2009
The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the regulated firm, A key aspect of the referred relationship pertains a leverage effect according to which debt could be increased as a response to previous physical capital investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979410
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Powering Up Developing Countries through Integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - CESifo - 2012
Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556079
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Competition and Quality in Regulated Markets with Sluggish Demand
Brekke, Kurt R.; Cellini, Roberto; Siciliani, Luigi; … - CESifo - 2010
We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … to the steady state. While fiercer competition (lower transportation costs or less sluggish demand) leads to higher … quality in both solutions, the quality response to increased competition is weaker when players use feedback strategies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572490
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Adoption and Diffusion of Health Information Technology - The Case of Primary Care Clinics
Callaway, Brant; Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2012
We empirically examine the determinants of adoption of information technology by primary healthcare clinics using a large sample of physician clinics from several States in the U.S. Ours is one of the first studies to intensively investigate primary care clinics. These clinics are important as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570052
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The Endgame of Telecommunications Policy? A Survey
Vogelsang, Ingo - CESifo - 2013
) universal service suggests that in some of them a move to competition policy will soon be the efficient state of the art, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877751
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Investment in Broadband Infrastructure Under Local Deregulation: Evidence from the U.K. Broadband Market
Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - CESifo - 2013
This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877989
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Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?
Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tarjei; Leuven, Edwin; … - CESifo - 2012
Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points in 2000–2008, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556077
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Will the U.S. and EU Telecommunications Policies Converge? A Survey
Vogelsang, Ingo - CESifo - 2014
Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local loops is largely deregulated in the U.S. but continues to be regulated in the EU. Or, the U.S. has an elaborate universal service policy with a set of universal service funds and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010781547
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Strategic Complexities in the Combinatorial Clock Auction
Knapek, Stephan; Wambach, Achim - CESifo - 2012
Recently, the combinatorial clock auction has become more and more common in the auctioning of telecommunication licenses. Although the auction design is complex, the promise is that bidding becomes simple - truthtelling is ‘close to optimal’. We show that this claim is too strong. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592131