Recent advances in telecommunications, particularly using fibre technologies, permit many services based on data … to create a level playing field between the country's former telecommunications monopolist and foreign competitors and …

In this paper we show how an upstream firm can prevent destructive competition among downstream firms producing …

voluntarily under PWYW. Furthermore, to see how competition affects the viability of PWYW, we implement markets in which a PWYW …

Competition among physicians is widespread, but compelling empirical evidence on the impact on service provision is … limited, mainly due to lack of exogenous variation in the degree of competition. In this paper we exploit that many GPs, in … observe the same GP in two different competitive environments; with competition (own practice) and without competition …

We investigate the effect of competition on quality in regulated markets (e.g., health care, higher education, public … to the steady state. While fiercer competition (lower transportation costs or less sluggish demand) leads to higher … quality in both solutions, the quality response to increased competition is weaker when players use feedback strategies …

Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local … telecommunications policies in the U.S. and EU? Based on a survey of the relevant U.S. and EU related economics literature the current …

that the monopoly platform does not introduce distortions over and above those arising from the market power of the … same time increases competition. As a result, the platform lowers the firm fees and raises the consumer charges. In … competition. In this case, the platform raises both the charge to the consumers and the fee for the firms …

-valorem taxes. We show that (i) a monopoly may have too high output compared to the social optimum; (ii) output may be reduced by …