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Cable Regulation in the Internet Era
Crawford, Gregory S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
television regulation in light of these developments. It surveys the dismal empirical record on the effects of price regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084592
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The Structure of Corporate ownership in Privatized Utilities
Trillas, Francesco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
this separation interact with the regulation of the product market. The main issue to be addressed here is how the degree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123598
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Economic Reform in Europe: Integrating and Liberalizing the Market for Services
Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
and gas. The Paper argues that there is unfinished business in the areas of regulation, restructuring, encouraging proper … risk management through contracting, and designing markets and regulation to ensure effective and sustainable competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661538
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Entrepreneurial Innovations, Entrepreneurship Policy and Globalization
Douhan, Robin; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the conflict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more pro-entrepreneurial policies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530366
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Capacity Choices in Liberalized Electricity Markets
Castro-Rodriguez, Fidel; Uribe, Marín; Luis, Pedro; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
absence of any regulation, private investment decisions on capacity unambiguously lead to a socially sub-optimal outcome, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792333
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Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)
Harbord, David; Hoernig, Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; networkbased price discrimination; and call externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468563
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Strategic Quality Choice with Minimum Quality Standards
Lutz, Stefan; Lyon, Thomas P; Maxwell, John W - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
In many markets governments set minimum quality standards while some sellers choose to compete on the basis of quality by exceeding them. Such ‘high-quality’ strategies often win public acclaim, especially when ‘environmental friendliness’ is the dimension along which firms are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656312
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To what extent do infrastructure and financial sectors reforms interplay? Evidence from panel data on the power sector in developing countries
Ba, Lika; Gasmi, Farid - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2011
agency, the unbundling of generation, transmission, and distribution, the introduction of competition and the implementation … distribution segment. The unbundling of generation, transmission, and distribution has contributed to improving productive … generation segment, has significantly benefited from the introduction of independent regulation, the beneficial effects of (good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399295
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Can Naked Exclusion Be Procompetitive?
Gratz, Linda; Reisinger, Markus - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Antitrust scholars have argued that exclusive contracts have anticompetitive, or at best neutral effects, if no efficiencies are generated. In contrast, this paper shows that exclusive contracts can have procompetitive effects, provided buyers are imperfect downstream competitors and contract...
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Naked exclusion: Towards a behavioral approach to exclusive dealing
Boone, Jan; Müller, Wieland; Suetens, Sigrid - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We report experimental results on exclusive dealing inspired by the literature on "naked exclusion.'' Our key findings are: First, exclusion of a more efficient entrant is a widespread phenomenon in lab markets. Second, allowing incumbents to discriminate between buyers increases exclusion rates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991543