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Policy Reform in Networks Infrastructure: The Case of Mexico

Tovar-Landa, Ramiro - EconWPA - 1997

This paper addresses the recent Mexico experience in the opening to competition in networks infrastructure mainly in … the telecommunications sector. In spite of deregulation and privatization policies in the recent past, there are threats … from regulatory failures which create obstacles in the process of maximizing the competition scope. Obstacles from …

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Contesting Contestability and the Efficiency of Wages

Burke, Andrew E.; To, Theodore - EconWPA - 1997

The fundamental contribution of the paper is to contest the view that greater market contestability has non-negative effects on market performance. In a model where employees pose a threat of potential entry, we demonstrate that a reduction in barriers to entry causes no fall in industry price...

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Privatization, Corporate Control and Regulatory Reform: The case of Telefonica

Bel, Germa; Trillas, Francesc - EconWPA - 2004

-level regulation will likely make any type of collusion or capture more difficult in the future. …

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Profit Neutrality in Licensing: The Boundary Between Antitrust Law and Patent Law

Maurer, Stephen M.; Scotchmer, Suzanne - EconWPA - 2004

From the antitrust case law that governs restrictions on patent licenses, we derive three unifying principles: just reward, profit neutrality and minimalism. The just-reward principle holds that the patentholder's profits should be earned, if at all, from the social value created by his...

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Is Innovation King at the Antitrust Agencies? The Intellectual Property Guidelines Five Years Later

Gilbert, Richard J.; Tom, Willard K. - EconWPA - 2001

The Microsoft antitrust case focused public attention on the role of antitrust enforcement in preserving the forces of innovation in high-technology markets. Traditionally, regulators focused on whether companies artificially hiked prices or reduced output. Now, they're increasingly likely to...

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An Economist's Guide to U.S. v. Microsoft

Gilbert, Richard J.; Katz, Michael L. - EconWPA - 2001

We analyze the central economic issues raised by U.S. v Microsoft. Network effects and economies of scale in applications programs created a barrier to entry for new operating system competitors, which the combination of Netscape Navigator and the Java programming language potentially could have...

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Remedies for Price Overcharges: The Deadweight Loss of Coupons and Discounts

Polinsky, A. Mitchell; Rubinfeld, Daniel L. - EconWPA - 2004

This article evaluates two different remedies for consumers who have been injured by a price overcharge on the sale of a good. Under a coupon remedy, injured consumers are awarded coupons that can be used for a limited period of time to purchase the good at a price below that which prevails...

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CIRCULAR VARIABLE WORK IN PROCESS

Vildosola, Luis - EconWPA - 2002

This work is focused on identifying a circular pull production control system (PPCS) and make emphasis on the presence of a stability attribute. It is an introductory paper to an extended study of macroeconomic financial stability in a physically open but systemic closed system. Previous work...

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Congestion, Private Peering and Capacity Investment on the Internet.

Manenti, Fabio M. - EconWPA - 2002

capacities are equilibrium complements; increasing competition reduces capacity investments (under-investment), thus worsening …

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Some Critical Provisions in the Antimonopoly Laws of Central and Eastern Europe

Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001

Antimonopoly laws must contain effective provisions for the attack of exclusionary behavior by firms with market power while at the same time not attacking procompetitive behavior by entrants or incumbents. This paper suggests seven textual criteria by which a new law may be evaluated in its...

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