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Vertical Restructuring of the Infrastructure Sectors of Transition Economies
Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001
One important determinant of the speed and success of transition will be the efficiency of transformation and development of the infrastructure sectors. A great deal of attention has been paid to issues such as privatisation, restructuring, user prices, and terms of access in these sectors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134435
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Government Policies toward Information and Communication
Willmore, Larry - EconWPA - 2004
The development of what one might call 'modern' systems of information and communication began with the Gutenberg printing press in the 15th century, and progressed through the prepaid postal system, electric telegraph and telephone in the 19th century, radio and television broadcasting in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408391
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Policy Reform in Networks Infrastructure: The Case of Mexico
Tovar-Landa, Ramiro - EconWPA - 1997
. Also, it focus on spectrum policy allocation and the role of the new antitrust authority and the specialized regulatory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076639
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Analysis of Subscription Demand for Pay-TV
Shishikura, Manabu; Kasuga, Norihiro; Torii, Akio - EconWPA - 2005
In this paper, we will conduct an analysis from an empirical perspective concerning broadcasting demand behavior and characteristics. More concretely, we will assume three options (subscription patterns), namely, nonsubscription, cable TV subscription, and subscription to broadcasting services...
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Congestion, Private Peering and Capacity Investment on the Internet.
Manenti, Fabio M. - EconWPA - 2002
This paper presents a model of private bilateral and multilateral peering arrangements between Internet backbone providers when the network is congested. We study how different forms of interconnection and the competitive conditions of the market affect backbones' investments in network and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412875
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Where Have All the Minutes Gone? Asymmetric Telecom Liberalization, Carrier Alliances, and Gaming of International Settlements
Schwartz, Marius; Malueg, David - EconWPA - 1998
Inflated retail prices and termination rates for international telecommunications have spawned traffic re-routing practices, including call turnaround (e.g., callback) and re-origination via third countries. The US and other liberalized countries that allow telecom competition favor such...
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Are R&D subsidies a substitute or a complement to privately funded R&D? Evidence from France using propensity score methods for non- experimental data
Emmanuel, DUGUET - EconWPA - 2004
This study examines the effect of research and development subsidies on the private funding of R&D in France. We address this issue from the annual R&D survey over 1985-1997, which provides information about the R&D subsidies given by all the ministries to the firms having at least one full-time...
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Competition and regulation in European retail payment systems
Kemppainen, Kari - EconWPA - 2004
analysed by applying the main lessons from the theory of network industries. This is justifiable on the grounds that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413262
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Equality of Demand and Supply Neither Determines Price Nor Clears the Market
Gani, Mohammad - EconWPA - 2004
) monetary theory, which claims that equality of demand and supply is necessary but not sufficient to clear the market. In … indirect trade, money also must be used. Micro says that price is equal to marginal cost, rejecting trade theory’s claim that … trade is gainful. To remove these and other contradictions, price theory must be repaired. Money’s role in market clearing …
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The meaning of gainful trade
Gani, Mohammad - EconWPA - 2004
'Gainful trade: a new economics' explains why and how economics may be rebuilt from scratch to allow the occurence of gainful trade. It uses a new concept of consistency of social choice and a new analytical tool called consistency analysis to build a unified model of economics. It answers all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119309