telecommunications operator France Telecom was simultaneously subjected to the deregulation of the telecom market in the world and to a …

We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the … significant impact in the less developed ones. -- telecommunications demand ; universal service ; competition ; developing …

nondiscrimination regulation that forces the ISP to provide an equal quality upgrade to both CPs, however, can reduce the ISP …

We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-Like-At-Home regulation, which drastically re-duced the price of accessing … impact of the regulation on different user segments. We estimate that around half of the gains stem from a reduction in … deadweight loss, i.e., new users accessing the mobile internet. We further show that the impact of the regulation varies with …

proposed policy mix can control the increase in cannabis consumption post-legalization and throttle the illegal market. The … opted for legalization, leaving room for the black market to flourish. Analyzing the compatibility of several policy goals …

Launching and stimulating competition in telecommunications markets is an important policy goal. It contains two … prices to be sufficiently low so that consumers enjoy higher net utilities. At a first glance, these two elements seem … difficult to achieve at the same time. In this paper, we consider price regulation in the retail and wholesale market and answer …

The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling … within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the … revenues. To evaluate the welfare effects of the regulation, we develop a framework that includes consumer surplus, retail and …

We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly … mobile termination rate regulation. We find that regulation benefits consumers significantly more than entry does, and that …

Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local … service policy with a set of universal service funds and specific policies for high-cost regions and low-income users, while … telecommunications policies in the U.S. and EU? Based on a survey of the relevant U.S. and EU related economics literature the current …