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Evaluating the impact of price caps : evidence from the European roam-like-at-home regulation
Canzian, Giulia; Mazzarella, Gianluca; Verboven, Frank; … - 2021
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012622563
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Privatization experiences in France
Berne, Michel; Pogorel, Gérard - 2004
telecommunications operator France Telecom was simultaneously subjected to the deregulation of the telecom market in the world and to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401332
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Benefits of regulation vs. competition where inequality is high : the case of mobile telephony in South Africa
Hawthorne, Ryan; Grzybowski, Lukasz - 2019
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029118
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Firm dynamics and residual inequality in open economies
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Giammario, Impullitti; Prat, Julien - 2014
Increasing wage inequality between similar workers plays an important role for overall inequality trends in industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and homogeneous workers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010250120
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Market structure and market access
Francois, Joseph F. (contributor); Wooton, Ian (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003647238
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The political economy of services trade agreements
Fiorini, Matteo; Lebrand, Mathilde - 2016
Why do governments sign services trade agreements? This paper focuses on the role of international agreements in the context of trade in services when services are used as intermediate inputs in downstream industries. Compared to goods, services inputs are mostly non-tradable and complementary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482658
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Visas and work permits : possible global negotiating initiatives
Ng, Chi-Yung (contributor); Whalley, John (contributor) - 2005
have been made as part of the Mode 4 GATS negotiations in the WTO, suggesting that the GATS/WTO may be an imperfect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003297547
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Trade liberalization in a joint spatial inter-temporal trade model
Huang, Hui (contributor); Whalley, John (contributor);  … - 2005
negotiations on services in the WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) need not be welfare improving if there are also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002758041
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The third generation (UMTS) spectrum auction in Germany
Grimm, Veronika; Riedel, Frank; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 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/10011400807
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Innovation of network goods : a non-innovating firm will gain
Glazer, Amihai; Kanniainen, Vesa; Mustonen, Mikko - 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/10011409408