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Evaluating the Impact of Price Caps - Evidence from the European Roam-Like-At-Home Regulation
Canzian, Giulia; Mazzarella, Gianluca; Verzillo, Stefano; … - 2021
The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling … within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the … revenues. To evaluate the welfare effects of the regulation, we develop a framework that includes consumer surplus, retail and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211736
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Regulating national firms in a common market
Biancini, Sara - 2008
We consider the regulation of national firms in a common market. Regulators can influence the production of national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264297
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Powering up developing countries through integration?
Auriol, Emmanuelle; Biancini, Sara - 2012
Power market integration is analyzed in a two countries model with nationally regulated firms and costly public funds. If generation costs between the two countries are too similar negative business-stealing outweighs efficiency gains so that following integration welfare decreases in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283608
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Fare Evasion and Monopoly Regulation
Besfamille, Martin; Figueroa, Nicolas; Guzmán, León - 2022
We consider the regulation of a monopoly facing consumers that may evade payments, an important issue in public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013299243
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A Dynamic Theory of Regulatory Capture
De Chiara, Alessandro; Schwarz, Marco A. - 2021
Firms often try to influence individuals that, like regulators, are tasked with advising or deciding on behalf of a third party. In a dynamic regulatory setting, we show that a firm may prefer to capture regulators through the promise of a lucrative future job opportunity (i.e., the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013236193
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Impact of Roaming Regulation on Revenues and Prices of Mobile Operators in the EU
Grzybowski, Lukasz; Munoz-Acevedo, Ángela - 2021
We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators’ average revenues per user (ARPU) and …-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile operator’s revenues per user, while it had no impact on tariffs during … the latest phase of the regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216252
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A fair price for energy? Ownership versus market opening in the EU15
Fiorio, Carlo V.; Florio, Massimo - 2010
In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270518
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Fare Evasion and Monopoly Regulation
Besfamille, Martin; Figueroa, Nicolás; Guzmán, León - 2022
We consider the regulation of a monopoly facing consumers that may evade payments, an important issue in public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177626
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Ramsey Pricing Revisited: Natural Monopoly Regulation with Evaders
Besfamille, Martin; Figueroa, Nicolás; Guzmán, Léon - 2023
We consider a model featuring a single-product natural monopoly, which faces evaders, i.e., individuals that may not pay the price. By exerting a costly effort, the firm can deter evasion. To maximize the total surplus, a regulator sets the price, the level of deterrence effort, and socially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469391
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MIMIC models, cointegration and error correction: an application to the French shadow economy
Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich G. - 2008
The analysis of economic loss attributed to the shadow economy has attracted much attention in recent years by both academics and policy makers. Often, multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) models are applied to time series data estimating the size and development of the shadow economy for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276604