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Testing the "waterbed" effect in mobile telephony
Genakos, Christos; Valletti, Tommaso - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
This paper examines the impact of regulatory intervention to cut termination rates of calls from fixed lines to mobile phones. Under quite general conditions of competition, theory suggests that lower termination charges will result in higher prices for mobile subscribers, a phenomenon known as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071382
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Is the internet really new after all?: the determinants of telecommunications diffusion in historical perspective
Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Recent anxieties over the digital divide have centered on the observation that uptake of the Internet is shaped by a number of identifiable, place-based factors. Yet is the Internet any more a product of material geography than previous communication technologies? Our contribution in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071144
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Net neutrality discourses: comparing advocacy and regulatory arguments in the United States and the United Kingdom
Powell, Alison; Cooper, Alissa - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Telecommunications policy issues rarely make news, much less mobilize thousands of people. Yet this has been occurring … in the United States around efforts to introduce "Net neutrality" regulation. A similar grassroots mobilization has not … with an eye toward identifying the arguments for and against regulation, how those arguments differ between the countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746694
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Persona rights for user-generated content: a normative framework for privacy and intellectual property regulation
Shepherd, Tamara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
This article introduces the term “persona rights” as a normative conceptual framework for analyzing the language of regulatory debates around privacy and intellectual property online, mainly from a Canadian perspective. In using the concept of persona rights to interrogate and critique the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126017
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Does pharmaceutical price regulation affect the adoption of generic competition?: evidence from the OECD, 1999-2008
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Varol, Nebibe; McGuire, Alistair - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Generic competition in the pharmaceutical market is an effective cost-containment mechanism that improves static efficiency and stimulates pharmaceutical innovation. There is no prior study that has empirically analysed the relative delays in adoption of generic competition. This paper aims to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745148
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Does planning regulation protect independent retailers?
Sadun, Raffaella - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
nature of local political control in the UK from 1993 to 2003. Since local politicians directly control planning regulation … independent retailers between 1998 and 2004 can be attributed to the perverse effect of planning regulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746338
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Politics, Labor, Regulation, and Performance: lessons from the privatization of OTE
Pagoulatos, George; Zahariadis, Nikolaos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Telecommunications Organization (OTE) market and social performance since 1992. Our findings confirm that regulation in tandem with …We use a public interest approach to assess the impact of weak regulation and troubled labor relations on the Hellenic … reduced state ownership generally improves market and social performance. Much depends on the intensity of regulation, not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010686649
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Four facets of critical news literacy in a non-democratic regime: how young Russians navigate their news
Toepfl, Florian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Fueled by the Arab spring, the question of how the rise of internet-mediated communication affects authoritarian regimes has received unprecedented attention within the discipline of communications. However, in this debate, scholars have not yet turned to the concept of literacy and addressed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884552
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Comparing media systems: re-evaluating the role of the public media in the digital age
Matos, Carolina - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
This paper is the continuation of my previous PhD research, Journalism and Political Democracy in Brazil, which was published by Lexington Books (March 2008), and was an investigation of the role of the mainstream media in Brazil and in Latin America in the re-democratization phase following the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884558
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Critical reflections on the benefits of ICT in education
Livingstone, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
In both schools and homes, information and communication technologies (ICT) are widely seen as enhancing learning, this hope fuelling their rapid diffusion and adoption throughout developed societies. But they are not yet so embedded in the social practices of everyday life as to be taken for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884586