We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly …

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 … to what extent such regulatory policy can stimulate competition. Our main finding is that, in the short run, asymmetric …

significant impact in the less developed ones. -- telecommunications demand ; universal service ; competition ; developing …We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the … competition on investment: competition seemingly helps stimulating investment in the most developed areas, but has probably no …

within the setting of fixed telecommunications markets. From an economist's perspective, the key question that underlies the …

areas. In particular, the U.S. telecommunications sector was hit by a deep crisis and electricity reforms suffered under the … experiences in other areas suggesting that competition could provide large benefits to hitherto regulated utilities in local …

We propose an analysis of platform competition based on the academic literature with a view towards competition policy …. First, we discuss to which extent competition can emerge in digital markets and show which forms it can take. In particular … competition in platform markets. Second, we analyse competition policy issues and discuss how rules designed for standard markets …

We analyze competition between data intermediaries collecting information on consumers, which they sell to firms for … price discrimination purposes. We show that competition between data intermediaries benefits consumers by increasing … competition between firms, and by reducing the amount of consumer data collected. We argue that merger policy guidelines should …