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The economics literature on Net Neutrality (NN) has been largely critical of NN regulation on the basis of theoretical … violations. In contrast, the current paper argues that NN regulation is largely ineffective, in particular, when it comes to the … price rule. NN regulation is effective only in preventing the blocking of specific content and in preventing the favoring of …
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We analyze competition between Internet Service Providers (ISPs) where consumers demand heterogeneous content within two Quality-of-Service (QoS) regimes, Net Neutrality and Paid Prioritization, and show that paid prioritization increases the static efficiency compared to a neutral network. We...
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The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of 2018 introduced stringent transparency rules compelling firms to …
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We build a model of the news market where advertisers allocate their ads between a social media platform and a news website. Our objective is to evaluate policy interventions aimed at fostering news creation by transferring revenues from social media to news websites already introduced in...
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This paper examines the publication of quality indicators in service markets with public finance systems, such as education and healthcare markets. We provide a spatial model of product differentiation in which the reporting of such indicators increases consumers’ decision weight on quality...
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This paper provides a novel rationale for the regulation of market size when heterogeneous firms compete. A regulator …
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Regulation in the sanitation sector in Brazil is facing a great deal of debate regarding the government level in which …, we investigate how the absence of tariff regulation has dissipated efficiencies and allowed the practice of monopolistic …
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We examine electricity market reform in Brazil: from the 1990s till 2004 the largely hydro-powered market cleared using a market mechanism, and in March 2004 reformed to a single buyer structure. We model monthly log price differences using a two-state Markov Switching model, allowing water...
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Consumer consent regulation is the cornerstone of modern data privacy regulation such as the European GDPR and the … Californian CCPA. By ensuring that consumers can reject any harmful data collection, the regulation seems an effective tool for … protecting consumers against price discrimination. By contrast, I provide the insight that consent regulation alone is …
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This study investigates the bank competition-stability nexus using a unique regulatory dataset provided by the Deutsche Bundesbank over the period 1994 to 2010. First, we use outright bank defaults as the most direct measure of bank risk available and contrast the results to weaker forms of bank...
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