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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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. …

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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 …

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Reviving trade routes: evidence from the Maputo Corridor

Sequeira, Sandra; Hartmann, Olivier; Kunaka, Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This new SSATP discussion paper reviews the experience of an apparently successful corridor to help understand optimal mix and trade-offs in reviving historical trade route. The Maputo Corridor, which had fallen in disuse during the troubled period in Mozambique, is widely regarded as one the...

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Accessibility in cities: transport and urban form

Rode, Philipp; Floater, Graham; Thomopoulos, Nikolas; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper focusses on one central aspect of urban development: transport and urban form and how the two shape the provision of access to people, goods and services, and information in cities. The more efficient this access, the greater the economic benefits through economies of scale,...

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Libya media transition: heading to the unknown

El Issawi, Fatima - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

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