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Behind the scenes of the telecommunications miracle : an empirical analysis of the Indian market
Biancini, Sara - 2010
We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the … and demand characteristics, using a small time-series-cross-section dataset on Indian States. We suggest that the price … elasticity of demand for mainlines might be sensibly higher than the levels usually found in developed countries, while the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008806687
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Tax incentives, bequest motives, and the demand for life insurance : evidence from two natural experiments in Germany
Sauter, Nicolas; Walliser, Jan; Winter, Joachim - 2010
-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000 halved the tax exemption limit for capital income in Germany. We document that … the demand for life insurance reacted strongly to this change. With regard to bequest motives, we analyze the demand for … viewed as an experimental institutional setting where life-insurance demand was not influenced by tax considerations which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966524
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Sudden stop : supply and demand shocks in the German natural gas market
Güntner, Jochen; Reif, Magnus; Wolters, Maik H. - 2024
was driven by adverse supply shocks and positive storage demand shocks, as Germany filled its inventories before the … supply stop on the German economy. Combining conventional and narrative sign restrictions, we find that gas supply and demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576948
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Let's switch to the cloud : cloud adoption and its effect on IT investment and productivity
Duso, Tomaso; Schiersch, Alexander - 2022
The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms utilize IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace large and inflexible fixed-cost investments in IT with more targeted variable spending in cloud solutions. In addition, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013368656
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Organizational barriers to transforming large finance corporations : cloud adoption and the importance of technological architecture
Cao, Ruiqing; Iansiti, Marco - 2022 - Original version: December 2022, this version: February 2023
This paper studies the impact of technological architecture around data storage and processing on the performance of large financial corporations after being exposed to more stringent data privacy regulations. A modular approach to cloud adoption - which reflects in the lack of data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472354
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New competition in telecommunications markets : regulatory pricing principles
Bijl, Paul de; Peitz, Martin - 2002
Launching and stimulating competition in telecommunications markets is an important policy goal. It contains two elements: to encourage entry and to make competition effective such that consumers benefit. The first one requires that entrants can make profits after investing in infrastructure so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409202
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The interplay between regulation and competitions : the case of universal service obligations
Hörnig, Steffen; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2002
Regulators have long been aware of the social aspects of communication. In the past, regulated monopolists have provided Universal Service Obligations, typically funded via a system of cross-subsidies. In this paper, we first review the rationale for imposing Universal Service Obligations, based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409371
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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
. Next, we use a demand and supply equilibrium framework to simulate prices and the distribution of welfare without entry and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029118
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Capital structure and regulation in US local telephony: an exploratory econometric study
Resende, Marcelo - 2009
The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the regulated firm, A key aspect of the referred relationship pertains a leverage effect according to which debt could be increased as a response to previous physical capital investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854388
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Investment in broadband infrastructure under local deregulation : evidence from the UK broadband market
Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752995