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Regulation and Barriers to Trade in Telecommunications Services in the European Union
Cave, Martin E. - 2009
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158458
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Price-Dependent Profit Sharing as an Escape from the Bertrand Paradox
Foros, Øystein - 2007
In this paper we show how an upstream firm can prevent destructive competition among downstream firms producing relatively close substitutes by implementing a price-dependent profit-sharing rule. The rule also ensures that the downstream firms undertake investments which benefit the industry in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777494
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Innovation of Network Goods: A Non-Innovating Firm Will Gain
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Mustonen, Mikko - CESifo - 2002
We consider duopolists innovating and producing a good subject to network externalities, so that the reservation price of a consumer increases with aggregate consumption. The post-innovation network consists of two compatible sub-networks, with increased network valuation of the new product....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765788
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The Swiss UMTS Spectrum Auction Flop: Bad Luck or Bad Design
Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - CESifo - 2001
This paper gives an account of events, and explains some systematic reasons of the UMTS auction flop in Switzerland. Apart from general market developments, which could not have been anticipated, we argue that auctiondesign which was introduced in England and adopted in Switzerland and elsewhere...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766272
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The Third Generation (UMTS) Spectrum Auction in Germany
Grimm, Veronika; Riedel, Frank; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - CESifo - 2001
The third generation UMTS auction in Germany raised an enormous amount of revenue, and at the same time achieved a more competitive market structure than other UMTS auctions in Europe. The present paper explains the design of that auction, and presents a game theoretic explanation of observed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094495
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The Dutch UMTS-Auction
Damme, Eric van - CESifo - 2002
In this paper I review the Dutch UMTS-auction that took place in the summer of 2000 and which, in contrast to the UK and German auctions, was generally considered to be a major flop. I analyse the policy process leading to the auction as well as the bidding behaviour in the auction, and provide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051587
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Education and Industrialization in Prussia
Edwards, Jeremy - 2013
This paper investigates Becker, Hornung and Woessmann's recent claim that education had an important causal effect on … problems, notably the omission of relevant variables which leads to serious bias in the estimated effect of education. When … these problems are corrected, the conclusions of Becker, Hornung and Woessmann no longer hold. Education did not play an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087285
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A Lipsetian Theory of Democratization : Development, Education, Inequality, and Resources
Boucekkine, Raouf - 2017
of education, inequality, and (natural) resources. We highlight two contrasting effects of education and human capital … accumulation. On the one side, education prompts economic growth and enriches the budget of the autocratic elite. On the other side …, education increases the “awareness” of citizens - capturing their reluctance to accept a dictatorship and their labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963389
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A Simple Model of Globalization, Schooling and Skill Acquisition
Davidson, Carl - 2013
incentives to educate. A key feature of our model is that education acts simultaneously as a signaling device and as a method for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075958
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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions
Portela, Miguel - 2008
The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement … education level between census data and observations constructed from enrolment data. We discuss a methodology for correcting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774497