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The endgame of telecommunications policy? : a survey

Vogelsang, Ingo - 2013

Will telecommunications policy in the form of industry-specific regulation go away? A literature review of the five policy areas (1) termination monopoly, (2) local bottleneck access, (3) net neutrality, (4) spectrum management, and (5) universal service suggests that in some of them a move to...

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Will the US and EU telecommunications policies converge? : a survey

Vogelsang, Ingo - 2014

Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local loops is largely deregulated in the U.S. but continues to be regulated in the EU. Or, the U.S. has an elaborate universal service policy with a set of universal service funds and...

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Bundling demand in K-12 broadband procurement

Aryal, Gaurab; Murry, Charles; Pal, Pallavi; Palit, Arnab - 2024

We evaluate the eﬀects of bundling demand for broadband internet by K-12 schools. In 2014, New Jersey switched from decentralized procurements to a new procurement system that bundled schools into four regional groups. Using an event study approach, we ﬁnd that, on average, prices for...

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In pursuit of fairness? : infrastructure investment in digital markets

Kretschmer, Tobias - 2022

Recent and ongoing investments into telecommunications infrastructure have facilitated the repeated waves of digitization, both in personal and professional life. I address the question of which actors should contribute to investment costs into telecoms infrastructure and how. One widely...

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Communications technology and terrorism

Mahmood, Rafat; Jetter, Michael - 2018

By facilitating the flow of information in society, communications technology (CT; e.g., newspapers, radio, television, the internet) can help terrorists to (i) spread their message, (ii) recruit followers, and (iii) coordinate among group members. However, CT also facilitates monitoring and...

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On the incidence of a financial transactions tax in a model with fire sales

Bierbrauer, Felix - 2012

This paper studies the impact of a financial transactions tax on a financial market where financial institutions trade with each other. Assets are marked to the market and financial institutions with negative equity are forced out of business. There are two main results: First, if all banks have...

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Did globalization influence credit market deregulation?

Eppinger, Peter S.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015

We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of the Fraser Institute. The results from both...

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Embedded supervision : how to build regulation into decentralised finance

Auer, Raphael A. - 2022

The emergence of so-called "decentralised finance" (DeFi) and a shadow financial system of cryptocurrency exchanges and stablecoin issuers raises the challenge of how to apply technology-neutral regulation so that similar risks are subject to the same rules. This paper makes the case for...

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Freeze! : financial sanctions and bank responses

Efing, Matthias; Goldbach, Stefan; Nitsch, Volker - 2018

We study the effects of financial sanctions on cross-border credit supply. Using a differences-in-differences approach to analyze eleven sanctions episodes between 2002 and 2015, we find that banks located in Germany reduce their positions in countries with sanctioned entities by 38%. The...

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Borders, roads and the relocation of economic activity due to extreme Weather

Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin; Steinwachs, Thomas - 2020

? This paper takes a granular approach to identify the role of connectivity on economic activity due to severe weather. We … national borders and road networks. We first explore how a potential disruption of connectivity through an international border … affects local spillovers in case of a weather shock. Second, we use road infrastructure as a proxy for overall connectivity to …

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