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We develop a simple model of banking regulation with two policy instruments: minimum capital requirements and … regulation. Therefore, countries are better off by harmonising regulation on an international standard …
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Will telecommunications policy in the form of industry-specific regulation go away? A literature review of the five … regulation will remain efficient in others for some time. In particular, some regulation should persist for net neutrality in the …
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The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the …
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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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We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on...
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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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The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the …
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Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local loops is largely deregulated in the U.S. but continues to be regulated in the EU. Or, the U.S. has an elaborate universal service policy with a set of universal service funds and...
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We develop a model to discuss a government's incentives to delegate to bureaucrats the regulation of an industry. The …-based regulation policy requires the government to make use of a bureaucracy; this has a bureaucratic cost, as the bureaucracy diverts … implications for when and how a government should delegate its regulation of industry. We find that bureaucratic discretion reduces …
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and labour market regulation on the capital stock. Several alternative testing methods show that the negative influence of … product and labour market regulation is considerably stronger at higher levels. The paper uncovers important policy …
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