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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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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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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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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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Competition in the German Broadband Access Market

Vanberg, Margit A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

, there is a need for unbundling regulation to foster competition. Improvements to the current open-network regulation …

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The impact of alternative public policies on the deployment of new communications infrastructure: A survey

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Frübing, Stefan; Vogelsang, Ingo - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

, deregulatory policies including soft regulation are the dominant policy in 'black' areas, where several independent infrastructure …

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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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Mobile and more productive? Firm-level evidence on the productivity effects of mobile internet use at the early stage of diffusion

Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013

Mobile internet access allows for flexibility with respect to working time and working place. We analyse whether employees' use of mobile internet access improves firms' labour productivity. Our data set comprises 2460 German firms and refers to the year 2010, when mobile internet started its...

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The national regulatory structure against the background of the European regulatory system

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

innovations. Moreover, national regulators become more independent, and former national regulation tasks are partially shifted to …

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