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This paper examines the justifications, history, and practice of regulation in the US telecommunications sector. We … the emergence and decline of the telecom bubble, the impact on pricing of digitization and the emergence of Internet … the history of regulation and antitrust intervention in the telecommunications sector. After discussing the impact of …
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First, a small open economy is analyzed to show that even a complete and competitive market may fail to produce Pareto-efficient outcomes under conditions of changing technology. It is mainly because price- taking agents can make the prices they face by changing their technology or technique of...
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The Innovation systems (IS) approach and the system failures it identifies, play an important role in the design and legitimization of innovation policy. This paper analyses the usefulness of this concept. We conclude that the IS-approach can be useful to visualize the complexity of the...
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The objective of this paper is to present Hickssian general equilibrium approaches to productivity measurement in the presence of market failure.
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Information intermediaries deliver information about a supplier's product. They are paid by those same suppliers they certify. This introduces conflicts of interests as the intermediaries want to retain customers by delivering truthful information about suppliers, while suppliers would want the...
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Flat – rated internet pricing is increasingly becoming the most common mode of dial - up access nowadays. However, the … always the case, both sides are probably right. This paper addresses an important issue on dial up internet access and … end and assuming flat – rated internet pricing, several interconnection models are studied. Among the metered models, the …
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and services via Internet. The remote banking becomes one of the main channels for bank services distribution. This paper … services available via Internet; online application forms; online banking application; other online/remote services. In spite … of the small number of Bulgarian banks, which offer their products and services via Internet, the research shows that …
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services via Internet. The remote banking become one of the main channels for bank services distribution. The Internet … expansion of the Bulgarian banks is at its beginning. The showed results are based on the Internet research, which has aimed to … describe actual picture of Bulgarian banks present in Internet. …
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E-commerce may prove a double-edged sword for antitrust enforcement. While the internet massively increases the … origin-based policy of regulation is recommended. …
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Participants in a market, buyers and sellers, may need the service of an intermediary who will put them into contact and give them information about their potential trading partner. The intermediary chooses what price it will charge to each side to have access to its service. It also chooses...
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