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Deregulation and enterprization in Central and Eastern telecommunication : a benchmark for the West?
Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 1996
Die Umstrukturierung der Telekommunikation in Osteuropa erfolgt zu einer Zeit, da die traditionellen … Industriestrukturen weltweit auseinanderbrechen. Im Sozialismus war Telekommunikation keine Wirtschaftstätigkeit, sondern ein von der …. Dies führt zu erheblicher technischer Modernisierung und zu einer weitgehenden Marktsegmentierung in der Telekommunikation …
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Benchmarking efficiency of telecommunication industries in the US and Major European countries : a stochastic possibility frontiers approach
Erber, Georg (contributor) - 2006
Productivity growth and in particular the significant acceleration of productivity growth in the US economy in the second half of the 1990’s, raised high expectations that the massive investment in ICT-capital goods had finally had its impact on the whole US economy. Numerous growth accounting...
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Facebook shadow profiles
Aguiar, Luis; Peukert, Christian; Schäfer, Maximilian; … - 2022
Data is often at the core of digital products and services, especially when related to online advertising. This has made data protection and privacy a major policy concern. When surfing the web, consumers leave digital traces that can be used to build user profiles and infer preferences. We...
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Merger policy in digital markets : an ex-post assessment
Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Calvano, Emilio; … - 2019
This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first discuss the most crucial features of digital markets such as network effects, multi-sidedness, big data, and rapid innovation that create important challenges for competition...
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Returns to data : evidence from web tracking
Ullrich, Hannes; Hannane, Jonas; Peukert, Christian; … - 2024
Tracking online user behavior is essential for targeted advertising and is at the heart of the business model of major online platforms. We analyze tracker-specific web browsing data to show how the prediction quality of consumer profiles varies with data size and scope. We find decreasing...
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The evolution of theories of harm in eu merger control
Duso, Tomaso; Bernhardt, Lea; Piechucka, Joanna - 2024
We discuss the main Theories of Harm in EU merger control and their evolution since the 1990s. We present stylised facts and trends using data extracted from EU merger decisions by natural language processing tools. EU merger policy has adapted over time, both in terms of legislation and...
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Regulated expansion of electricity transmission networks : the effects of fluctuating demand and wind generation
Schill, Wolf-Peter; Rosellón, Juan; Egerer, Jonas - 2011
We study the performance of different regulatory approaches for the expansion of electricity transmission networks in the light of realistic demand patterns and fluctuating wind power. In particular, we are interested in the relative performance of a combined merchant-regulatory mechanism...
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Interconnection and prioritization
Baake, Pio; Sudaric, Slobodan - 2016
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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Judicial behavior and devolution at the Privy Council
Amaral-Garcia, Sofia; Garoupa, Nuno - 2017
In this article, we study judicial behavior at the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (JCPC). British judges in general, and British high court judges in particular, are perceived to be independent and isolated from political pressure and interference. Furthermore, these judges tend to show...
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Estimating crowding costs in public transport
Haywood, Luke; Koning, Martin - 2013
Preferences for transport activities are often considered only in terms of time and money. Whilst congestion in automobile traffic increases costs by raising trip durations, the same is less obvious in public transport (PT), especially rail-based. This has lead many economic analyses to conclude...
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