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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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Abstract In markets with competing interconnected networks like mobile telecommunication markets investments affect the investor’s and also any competitors’ profits. In a theoretical model it is shown that cost-reducing investments reduce the investor’s termination rates and increase...
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analysis. These findings show that European Commission interventions are competition enhancing and support the expected …
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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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regulatory holidays or geographically differentiated regulations, ii) deregulatory approaches based on effective competition law … of access regulations exist, whereas only a much smaller branch of literature addresses the impact of competition … in grey areas, if there is sufficient pressure from competitive outside options and if competition law is strong. Finally …
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We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...
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This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly … competition for this group of firms and helped them to increase profitability. The increasing share of sole traders may indicate … wage. In the western part of the country minimum wages had no impact on competition. …
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comparison with the United States. It has been argued that lack of product market competition and poor corporate governance are … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in …
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for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product …
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in order to mitigate competition or offer a higher quality in order to restrict the entrant's geographical coverage. …
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