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addition, this idea is largely contradicted by the short period during which the sector achieved some level of competition … Telecommunications Act and of much of the competition it helped facilitate. …
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Regulation is presumed to be designed to avoid (potential) market failures,usually because of firms' market power, the consequence of which leads to a decrease in economic welfare. However, the cost of regulation may outweigh any effects policy makers have on the firm due to administrative...
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rules governing incumbent-form conduct to a regime of ex post competition enforcement. …
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national regulatory authorities (NRAs) was whether to foster service-based competition in the first phase of liberalisation or … to focus on infrastructurebased competition. The different NRAs chose to head down different roads. This paper analyses … indicates that infrastructure-based competition has a positive effect on innovation. Moreover, infrastructure-based competition …
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Is the United States in full retreat from internationally recognized regulatory best practice? Or is it instead headed toward some different destination – "dancing to the beat of a different drummer"? Where is this likely to lead?
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This paper addresses the question of what options are available to regulate the sector in the near future. In order to answer this question, the paper focuses on the problem of investment and innovation in an ex ante regulated sector. Relying on existing literature, we argue that ex ante...
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Using the classical Hotelling model, this paper analyzes the incentive for a CATV service provider to bundle broadband internet services when entering the broadband internet services market. In addition, the effect of such service bundling by an entrant on the market incumbent with ownership...
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became applicable from 2003. It has three primary objectives: (1) to promote competition; (2) to develop the single market …
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-based competition necessarily has negative effects on innovation incentives and the emergence of infrastructure-based competition in the … a result, our proposal of contingent regulation in emerging markets promotes infrastructure-based competition in …
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will tend to increase the intensity of competition but convergence in complements may have the opposite effect. Given the …
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