and regulation schemes on retail electricity prices. We find significantly higher prices in markets with vertically …

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 …

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

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

Using a newly constructed panel dataset of German enterprises, I estimate R&D and capital investment equations for the … time period from 1990 to 1994. Simple accelerator specifications indicate considerable sensitivity of R&D and investment to … account, but a significant positive relationship between cash flow and investment remains for relatively small firms. In the …

new fiber-based communications infrastructure. Since such investment is expected to induce substantial positive … implementation and competitive market structures including allowance of co-investment models, and iii) public subsidies to cover non …, where only monopoly structure or co-investment models lead to private investment. Deregulatory policies might be preferable …