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Reassessing competition concerns in electronic communications markets

Peitz, Martin; Valletti, Tommaso - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Central features of today's electronic communications markets are complementarities between the different layers of the value chain, substitutability between some applications, network effects in the provision of content and services, two-sided business models that partly involve indirect...

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Mobile network interconnection and investments

Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

, investments increase off-net traffic from the investor’s network but also from competitors’ networks. Regulation changes the … functions. Testing for a common regulation-investment effect provides evidence that the negative investment externality is not … due to regulation. …

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Liberalization of the Postal Service Market in Europe: Entry with Universal Service and Partial Coverage

Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

In the advent of postal market liberalization in several European countries we expect that the incumbent operators anticipate entry by competitors who are not required to offer universal service, i.e. coverage of the entire country and uniform pricing. The market for postal service exhibits...

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Entry Deterrence in Postal Service Markets

Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

market regulation have motivated this quality improvement. In particular we show that this rise in quality is only profitable …

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European telecommunication regulation: Effects on telecommunication providers

Veith, Tobias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a … repeating ARGARCH model, I compare the effect of three types of regulation which are categorized based on the addressed subject …, i.e. cross-market, country-specific and company-specific regulation. While standard event study approaches are a special …

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The Economic Impact of Olympic Games: Evidence from Stock Markets

Dick, Christian D.; Wang, Qingwei - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

By means of an event study of stock market reactions to the announcement of the Olympic Games host cities, we find a significant and positive announcement effect of hosting the Summer Games, with a cumulative abnormal return of about 2% within a few days. We do not find any significant results...

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Physical activity of adults: A survey of correlates, determinants, and effects

Cabane, Charlotte; Lechner, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

We survey the literature on the link of labour market related outcomes to individ-ual physical activity and sports participation. The first part of the survey is devoted to the individual participation decision and is based on papers from various disciplines. The sec-ond part summarises parts of...

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Static vs. dynamic impacts of unbundling: Electricity markets in South America

Schober, Dominik - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Ownership unbundling and third party access are discussed as two options of unbundling in both the literature and political discussions. Focusing on the South American electricity sector, I contrast static and dynamic impacts of ownership unbundling and third party access regimes on customer...

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A vision of the European energy future? The impact of the German response to the Fukushima earthquake

Grossi, Luigi; Heim, Sven; Waterson, Michael - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

The German response to the Fukushima nuclear power plant incident was possibly the most significant change of policy towards nuclear power outside Japan, leading to a sudden and very significant shift in the underlying power generation structure in Germany. This provides a very useful natural...

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Efficient contracts for government intervention in promoting next generation communications networks

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Holzleitner, Christian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

Although the future socio-economic benefits of a new fibre-based ('next generation access', NGA) telecommunications infrastructure seem to be uncontroversial, a universal NGA coverage appears to be a rather unrealistic objective without government intervention. We contend, however, that the...

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