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Can Minimum Prices Assure the Quality of Professional Services?

Meran, Georg; Schwarze, Reimund - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

This papers studies the effects on service quality and consumer surplus of a minimum price which is fixed by a bureaucratic non-monopolistic professional association. It shows that the price floor set by a Niskanen-type professional assocation will maximize consumer surplus only if consumers...

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Implications of Mandatory Registration of Mobile Phone Users in Africa

Jentzsch, Nicola - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa ranks among the top regions in terms of growth in the number of mobile phone users. The success of mobile telephony is attributed to the opening of markets for private players and lenient regulatory policy. However, markets may be increasingly saturated and new regulations...

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Ubiquitous Social Networks: Opportunities and Challenges for Privacy-Aware User Modelling

Preibusch, Sören; Hoser, Bettina; Gürses, Seda; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Privacy has been recognized as an important topic in the Internet for a long time, and technological developments in … the area of privacy tools are ongoing. However, their focus was mainly on the individual. With the proliferation of social … network sites, it has become more evident that the problem of privacy is not bounded by the perimeters of individuals but also …

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