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We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-Like-At-Home regulation, which drastically re-duced the price of accessing the mobile internet for EU residents when traveling abroad in the European Economic Area. Estimates from individual-level usage data suggest that consumer surplus increased by...
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The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling …
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This paper analyses the effects of a pension system privatization in a unionized economy. Using an overlapping … state may result in lower levels of employment and capital stock. In this case even if the privatization increases the … employment then a Paretoimproving pension privatization scheme can be constructed. …
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firms as well as all the banks and public services were state-owned. Since then, a series of privatization moves have caused …
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We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators' average revenues per user (ARPU) and retail prices. Using a differences-in-difference approach, hedonic price regressions and detailed operator and plan-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile...
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media consumers becomes more important the larger the number of competing media products. …
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imposed on detected payment evaders. For a given price and fine, the consumers purchase, evade payment, or choose the outside …
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In our model, an agent produces an outcome by a costly effort and then distributes it among heterogeneous users. The agents̕ payoff is the weighted sum of the users ̕shares and the coefficient reflecting their heterogeneity. When the agent neglects users ̕heterogeneity the game leads to an...
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This paper assumes that groups of consumers in network markets can coordinate their choices when it is in their best … coexist in equilibrium if consumers have heterogeneous reservation values. A monopolist provider might choose to operate … multiple networks to price differentiate consumers on both sides of the market. Competing network providers might operate …
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In the context of emission trading it seems to be taken as given that people's preferences can be ignored with respect to the whole process of fixing emission targets and allocating emission permits to polluters. With this paper we want to reopen the debate on how citizens can be involved in...
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