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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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Network Externalities and Interconnection Incentives

Vanberg, Margit A. - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005

The majority of industrial organizations literature on network externalities looks at firm behavior under given market characteristics. The present paper instead asks the question whether the presence of network externalities can change market characteristics, specifically, whether an initially...

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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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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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Corporate governance and current regulation in the German banking sector: an overview and assessment

Köhler, Matthias - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This paper gives an overview over corporate governance and banking regulation in Germany. Particular attention is put …

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Screening instruments for monitoring market power in wholesale electricity markets: Lessons from applications in Germany

Bataille, Marc; Steinmetz, Alexander; Thorwarth, Susanne - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014

While liberalization in energy markets has been a widely successful process all over the world, incumbents often still hold a dominant position. Thus, electricity wholesale markets are subject to market surveillance. Nevertheless, consolidated findings on abusive practices of market power and...

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