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Hoteles como inversión inmobiliaria, Los

Suarez, Jose L. - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2004

o parte de los inmuebles que utilizan. En esos casos surge –como área de gestión– la relación entre el operador del … lugar a distribuciones del riesgo diferentes; los dos tipos principales son los contratos de gestión y explotación. Este …

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Managing technology development for safety-critical systems

Sachon, Marc; Paté-Cornell, Elisabeth - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2002

This paper presents a model that determines the optimal budget allocation strategy for the development of new technologies for safety-critical systems over multiple decision periods. The case of the development of a hypersonic passenger airplane is used as an illustration. The model takes into...

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Regulatory change in network industries: The Spanish experience

Gual, Jordi - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2002

The 1990s witnessed significant regulatory changes in several Spanish network industries such as electricity, telecommunications, natural gas and oil. This article provides an assessment of these developments, trying to ascertain what goals policy-makers attempted to achieve with the...

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Telecommunications policies: Measurement and determinants

Gual, Jordi; Trillas, Francesc - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2006

This paper presents new data on telecommunications reform for a cross section of countries. We measure telecommunications reform along two dimensions: entry barriers and regulatory independence. This data set is combined with a comprehensive set of performance, institutional and political data...

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Non-cost-raising discrimination: A rationale for functional separation in broadband open access

Hervas-Drane, Andres - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2011

I present a vertical differentiation model to assess the quality-wise strategy of an incumbent telecommunications operator under open access regimes. I show that it is always profitable for an incumbent subject to wholesale regulation to degrade wholesale quality in a non-recoverable fashion....

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Mobile termination and mobile penetration

Hurkens, Sjaak; Jeon, Doh-Shin - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2009

In this paper, we study how access pricing affects network competition when subscription demand is elastic and each network uses non-linear prices and can apply termination-based price discrimination. In the case of a fixed per minute termination charge, we find that a reduction of the...

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Mobile termination, network externalities, and consumer expectations

Hurkens, Sjaak; Lopez, Angel - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2010

We re-examine the literature on mobile termination in the presence of network externalities. Externalities arise when firms discriminate between on- and off-net calls or when subscription demand is elastic. This literature predicts that profit decreases and consumer surplus increases in...

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Telecommunications policies: Determinants and impact

Gual, Jordi; Trillas, Francesc - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2003

This paper presents new data, in the form of four indices, on liberalization policies and the independence of regulators for a cross-section of countries. These indices are combined with a comprehensive set of performance, institutional and political data to analyze both the determinants and the...

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Electricity and telecoms reforms in the EU: Insights from the economics of federalism

Trillas, Francesc - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2010

The economics of federalism is a broad discipline with more than five decades of experience. It may shed light on how regulatory jurisdiction is allocated in EU electricity and telecommunications markets. Specifically, this paper assesses the evolution of reform up to and including the third EU...

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Stochastic market sharing, partial communication and collusion

Gerlach, Heiko - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2007

This paper analyzes the role of communication between firms in an infinitely repeated Bertrand game in which firms …-temporal market sharing as a perfect substitute for communication in low-demand states. Therefore, partial communication in high …-demand states is sufficient to achieve the most collusive, full communication outcome. And partial communication in low …

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