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Strategic Complexities in the Combinatorial Clock Auction

Knapek, Stephan; Wambach, Achim - CESifo - 2012

Recently, the combinatorial clock auction has become more and more common in the auctioning of telecommunication licenses. Although the auction design is complex, the promise is that bidding becomes simple - truthtelling is ‘close to optimal’. We show that this claim is too strong. The...

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Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?

Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tarjei; Leuven, Edwin; … - CESifo - 2012

Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points in 2000–2008, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental...

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Behind the Scenes of the Telecommunications Miracle: An Empirical Analysis of the Indian Market

Biancini, Sara - CESifo - 2010

We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the …

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The Endgame of Telecommunications Policy? A Survey

Vogelsang, Ingo - CESifo - 2013

Will telecommunications policy in the form of industry-specific regulation go away? A literature review of the five … policy areas (1) termination monopoly, (2) local bottleneck access, (3) net neutrality, (4) spectrum management, and (5 … form of transparency requirements, (quasi-) common carrier obligations and minimum quality standards. Also, spectrum …

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Investment in Broadband Infrastructure Under Local Deregulation: Evidence from the U.K. Broadband Market

Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - CESifo - 2013

This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...

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Will the U.S. and EU Telecommunications Policies Converge? A Survey

Vogelsang, Ingo - CESifo - 2014

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 … paper addresses this issue for the five policy areas of interconnection, wholesale loop access, net neutrality, spectrum …

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Capital Structure and Regulation in U.S. Local Telephony: An Exploratory Econometric Study

Resende, Marcelo - CESifo - 2009

The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the regulated firm, A key aspect of the referred relationship pertains a leverage effect according to which debt could be increased as a response to previous physical capital investment...

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Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Growth

Czernich, Nina; Falck, Oliver; Kretschmer, Tobias; … - CESifo - 2009

We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel of OECD countries in 1996-2007. Our instrumental-variable model derives its non-linear first stage from a logistic diffusion model where pre-existing voice-telephony and...

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Prioritization vs. Zero-Rating : Discrimination on the Internet

Gautier, Axel - 2018

This paper analyzes two business practices on the mobile internet market, paid prioritization and zero-rating. Both violate the principle of net neutrality by allowing the internet service provider to discriminate different content types. In recent years these practices have attracted...

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Unbundling the Incumbent and Entry Into Fiber : Evidence From France

Bourreau, Marc - 2018

We use panel data on 36,104 municipalities in metropolitan France over the period 2010-2014 to estimate two models of entry into local markets by: (i) alternative operators using wholesale access to the legacy copper network via local loop unbundling (LLU), and (ii) the incumbent and two...

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