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Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary …
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We study how political factors shape competition in the mobile telecommunication sector. We show that the way a … government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation … competition. Government intervention has large redistributive effects: U.S. consumers would gain $65bn a year if U.S. mobile …
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This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the...
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policies reduced broadband access and competition in states with restrictions compared to states without restrictions leading …
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Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological change skill biased or factor neutral? We exploit rich Norwegian data to answer these questions. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points, and...
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This paper develops and simulates a dynamic model of strategic telecom competition. The goal is to understand how … regulatory policy, particularly relative to lease charges for local network elements, affects telecom competition, investment … allow CLECs to lease their local network facilities was established in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as part of a quid …
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Competition in many important industries centers on investment in intellectual property. Firms engage in dynamic …, Schumpeterian competition for the market, through sequential winner-take-all races to produce drastic innovations, rather than … through static price/output competition in the market. Sound antitrust economic analysis of such industries requires explicit …
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Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national … competition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since …
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In this paper we review issues relating to antitrust and competition in health care markets. The paper begins with a … ways that might affect the optimality of competition. The paper then focuses on the main areas in which antitrust has been …
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This paper sets up a microeconomic theory of labor unions. It discusses their formation and goals, their hierarchical structure, and the nature of rent distribution. The theory provides predictions for the probability that an industry or occupation will be unionized, the proportion of that...
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