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Testing the "waterbed" effect in mobile telephony
Genakos, Christos; Valletti, Tommaso - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
This paper examines the impact of regulatory intervention to cut termination rates of calls from fixed lines to mobile phones. Under quite general conditions of competition, theory suggests that lower termination charges will result in higher prices for mobile subscribers, a phenomenon known as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071382
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Persona rights for user-generated content: a normative framework for privacy and intellectual property regulation
Shepherd, Tamara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
– particularly in spaces for user-generated content (UGC) – and in suggesting how policy might be written to account for user rights …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126017
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Evaluating a decade of mobile termination rate regulation
Genakos, Christos; Valletti, Tommaso - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
We re-consider the impact that regulation of call termination on mobile phones has had on mobile customers’ bills … periods. Over the same decade, we find no evidence that regulation caused a reduction in mobile operators’ profits and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126159
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Is the internet really new after all?: the determinants of telecommunications diffusion in historical perspective
Perkins, Richard; Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Recent anxieties over the digital divide have centered on the observation that uptake of the Internet is shaped by a number of identifiable, place-based factors. Yet is the Internet any more a product of material geography than previous communication technologies? Our contribution in this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071144
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Net neutrality discourses: comparing advocacy and regulatory arguments in the United States and the United Kingdom
Powell, Alison; Cooper, Alissa - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Telecommunications policy issues rarely make news, much less mobilize thousands of people. Yet this has been occurring … in the United States around efforts to introduce "Net neutrality" regulation. A similar grassroots mobilization has not … with an eye toward identifying the arguments for and against regulation, how those arguments differ between the countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746694
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Does pharmaceutical price regulation affect the adoption of generic competition?: evidence from the OECD, 1999-2008
Costa-i-Font, Joan; Varol, Nebibe; McGuire, Alistair - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Generic competition in the pharmaceutical market is an effective cost-containment mechanism that improves static efficiency and stimulates pharmaceutical innovation. There is no prior study that has empirically analysed the relative delays in adoption of generic competition. This paper aims to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745148
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Does planning regulation protect independent retailers?
Sadun, Raffaella - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
nature of local political control in the UK from 1993 to 2003. Since local politicians directly control planning regulation … independent retailers between 1998 and 2004 can be attributed to the perverse effect of planning regulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746338
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Irrational exuberance, entrepreneurial finance and public policy
Coelho, Marta; de Meza, David; Reyniers, Diane J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
lending. Optimism leads to the opposite conclusion, at least if it is legitimate to use fiscal policy to counteract systematic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128056
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Women in politics: evidence from the Indian states
Clots-Figueras, Irma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
higher female representation in the State Legislatures on public goods, policy and expenditure. I find that women legislators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071398
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Labor search and matching in macroeconomics
Yashiv, Eran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
The labor search and matching model plays a growing role in macroeconomic analysis. This paper provides a critical, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment determined as equilibrium phenomena? What...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071476