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Net neutrality regulation : much ado about nothing?
Vogelsang, Ingo - 2019
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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Net neutrality, prioritization and the impact of content delivery networks
Baake, Pio; Sudaric, Slobodan - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011904268
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Regulatory compliance with limited enforceability : evidence from privacy policies
Ganglmair, Bernhard; Krämer, Julia; Gambato, Jacopo - 2024
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of 2018 introduced stringent transparency rules compelling firms to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014504790
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Electricity market operation : transitioning from a free market to a single buyer structure
Daglish, Toby; Bragança, Gabriel Godofredo Fiuza de; … - 2016
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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The more the merrier? : on the optimality of market size restrictions
Negenborn, Colin von - 2019 - This draft: September 10, 2019
This paper provides a novel rationale for the regulation of market size when heterogeneous firms compete. A regulator …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012108481
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Efficiency and regulation in the sanitation sector in Brazil
Motta, Ronaldo Serôa da; Moreira, Ajax - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023809
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Consumer salience and quality provision in (un)regulated public service markets
Gu, Yiquan; Rasch, Alexander; Wenzel, Tobias - 2020
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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News media bargaining codes
Sandrini, Luca; Somogy, Robert - 2024
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577558
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Bank risk taking and competition : evidence from regional banking markets
Kick, Thomas; Prieto, Esteban - 2013
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792985
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Can open sourcing lead to inferior standards?
Koerselman, Kristian - 2008
I investigate the effect of open source on standardization outcomes in a market with positive network externalities. In a closed source world, it seems reasonable to assume that the probability of a standard being chosen is positively correlated with its quality. Open source may weaken or invert...
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