provided Universal Service Obligations, typically funded via a system of cross-subsidies. In this paper, we first review the …

This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory …-quality CP. This subsequently increases the degree of content differentiation, softening competition between the CPs. Imposing a … nondiscrimination regulation that forces the ISP to provide an equal quality upgrade to both CPs, however, can reduce the ISP …

Will telecommunications policy in the form of industry-specific regulation go away? A literature review of the five …) universal service suggests that in some of them a move to competition policy will soon be the efficient state of the art, while … regulation will remain efficient in others for some time. In particular, some regulation should persist for net neutrality in the …

telecommunications policies in the U.S. and EU? Based on a survey of the relevant U.S. and EU related economics literature the current …

We study substitution between fixed and mobile broadband services in South Africa using survey data on 134 …

investment. -- regulation ; competition ; market integration ; investment ; electricity … to invest compared to autarky. The investment levels remain inefficient though. With generation facilities over-investment … occurs sometimes, while systematic under-investment occurs for transportation facilities. Free-riding reduces the incentives …

This paper investigates the relationship linking investment (capital stock) and structural policies. Using a panel of … with less investment (lower capital stock). The paper also sheds light on the existence of non-linear effects of product … and labour market regulation on the capital stock. Several alternative testing methods show that the negative influence of …

policies interact with and have an effect on business investment. This paper provides a survey of the literature on the main …Aggregate business investment is a major driver of long-term economic growth. It has been weak in many advanced … policy drivers of business investment such as finance (including bank and market finance, venture capital and the debt bias …

We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly … unequal country, South Africa. Using six waves of a consumer survey of over 134,000 individuals between 2009-2014, we estimate … mobile termination rate regulation. We find that regulation benefits consumers significantly more than entry does, and that …