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Economic replicability tests for next-generation access networks

Jaunaux, Laure; Lebourges, Marc - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2014

This paper discusses the relevant cost standard for the economic replicability test for Next-Generation Access (NGA) networks, described in the Recommendation on Costing and Non-discrimination adopted by the European Commission. According to the Recommendation itself, in order to reconcile...

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Electronic Communications Regulation in Europe: An Overview of Past and Future Problems

Parcu, Pier Luigi - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2013

For many years, electronic communications has been one of the most important areas of policy intervention for the European Union. Liberalisation and privatisation of the telecommunications industry were very important topics of the policy debate in the two decades from 1990 to 2010. In these...

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National FTTH plans in France, Italy and Portugal

Bourreau, Marc; Cambini, Carlo; Hoernig, Steffen - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2010

In this paper, we analyze the specific national broadband plans which have been developed by some European governments to foster the deployment of next generation access networks, namely in France, Italy, and Portugal. In particular, we discuss the strategies adopted to achieve wide fibre...

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Manufacturing the EU Energy Markets. The Current Dynamics of Regulatory Practice

Hancher, Leigh; Hauteclocque, Adrien de - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2010

This chapter aims to analysis the new dynamics at work in EU energy regulation. Since the publication of the European …

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Predicting Market Power in Wholesale Electricity Markets

Newbery, David - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2009

The traditional measure of market power is the HHI, which gives implausible results given the low elasticity of demand in electricity spot markets, unless it is adapted to take account of contracting. In its place the Residual Supply Index has been proposed as a more suitable index to measure...

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Long-term Energy Supply Contracts in European Competition Policy: Fuzzy not Crazy

Glachant, Jean-Michel; Hauteclocque, Adrien de - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2009

multiple-step approach is used to reduce regulation costs and balance anti-competitive effects with potential efficiency gains …

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Access regulation and the transition from copper to fiber networks in telecoms

Bourreau, Marc; Cambini, Carlo; Doğan, Pınar - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2013

: geographical regulation of access to copper networks - where access prices are differentiated depending on whether or not an …

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Network Neutrality, Access to Content and Online Advertising

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2013

We investigate possible effects of network neutrality regulation on the distribution of content in the Internet. We … universal distribution of content is always an equilibrium with net neutrality regulation. Instead, in the unregulated regime …

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Dividend Policy in Regulated Firms

Bremberger, Francisca; Cambini, Carlo; Gugler, Klaus; … - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2013

the implementation of different regulatory mechanisms (cost plus vs. incentive regulation) and to firm ownership (state vs … to incentive regulation smooth their dividends less than firms subject to cost-based regulation and present higher impact … following the adoption of incentive regulation, they adopt a dividend policy more responsive to earnings variability and more …

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Development Scenarios for the North and Baltic Sea Grid - A Welfare Economic Analysis

Egerer, Jonas; Kunz, Friedrich; Hirschhausen, Christian von - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2012

The North and Baltic Sea Grid is one of the largest pan-European infrastructure projects raising high hopes regarding the potential of harnessing large amounts of renewable electricity, but also concerns about the implementation in largely nationally dominated regulatory regimes. The paper...

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