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concession models. Next, theoretical backgrounds and rules of thumb for risk allocation in concessions for road infrastructure …
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structure with one firm choosing higher investments. While access regulation imposed on the dominant firm leads to lower prices … network effects leading to potentially increased demand, regulation can substantially lower aggregate social welfare …
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We analyze pricing and competition under paid prioritization within a model of interconnected internet service providers (ISPs), heterogeneous content providers (CPs) and heterogeneous consumers. We show that prioritization is welfare superior to a regime without prioritization (network...
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information sector. Finally, the very notion of telecommunication as an infrastructure is put in question for the first time in … Eastern Europe. We start to address the two relevant policy issues: modes of regulation, and science and technology policies … Partei und dem Staat geschaffenes Instrument zur Regulierung von Informationsflüssen. In Osteuropa werden seit 1990 …
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This paper provides an empirical demonstration for a practical approach of efficiency evaluation against the background of limited data availability in some regulated industries. Here, traditional DEA may result in a lack of discriminatory power when high numbers of variables but only limited...
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High growth firms (HGFs) are important for job creation and considered to be precursors of economic growth. We investigate how product- and labor-market regulations, as well as the quality of regional governments that implement these regulations, affect HGF development across European regions....
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transferred to the public. This paper assesses whether the new regulation will ultimately be to the benefit of the public. It …
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introduce regulatory lags in the model. A systematic comparison between the results of traditional yardstick regulation and … modified yardstick regulation is carried out. Finally, we discuss the applicability of the mechanism. …
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analyses, which were based on simplifying assumptions. We show that a combined merchant-regulatory regulation, which draws on a …
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In 1997, the Comisión Reguladora de Energía of Mexico implemented a netback rule for linking the Mexican natural gas price to the Texas price. At the time, the Texas price reflected a reasonably competitive market. Since that time, there have been dramatic increases in the demand for natural...
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