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Competition Policy and Market Regulation 'M1069 WORLDCOM/MCI'
Mico, Apostolov - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Nowadays high profile merger cases are becoming quite important and are taken as milestones of legal systems that … of the decisions made by the European Commission, as well as, the US Department of Justice in the merger case of two … competitive effects produced by such possible merger and the possible solutions in case of anticompetitive outcomes. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919760
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Banking consolidation and the availability of credit to small businesses
Cole, Rebel; Walraven, Nick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
In this study, we use firm-level data from the 1993 National Survey of Small Business Finances to test the hypothesis that banking consolidation has reduced the availability of credit to small businesses. We find that banks in markets where mergers have occurred are more likely than other banks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836119
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Do mergers create or destroy value? Evidence from unsuccessful mergers
Cole, Rebel; Fatemi, Ali; Vu, Joseph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
In this study, we examine unsuccessful takeover attempts for new evidence on whether mergers create or destroy value … literature on signaling by investigating whether a takeover attempt signals investors about the quality of firm management as … partially, but not completely, reversed by termination announcement returns, evidence that the merger proposal itself contains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837001
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A Strategic Guide on Two-Sided Markets Applied to the ISP Market
Cortade, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper looks at a new body of literature that deals with two-sided markets and focuses on the Internet Service Provider (ISP) segment. ISPs seem to act as a platform enabling transactions between web sites and end consumers. We propose a strategic guide for ISPs that covers features of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836021
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Bundles and Range Strategies: The Case of Telecom Operators
Pernet, Sophie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Against a background of competition and the generalisation of IP that characterises the field of electronic communications, the concept of the "bundle" has resulted in the emergence of "triple play", and even "quadruple play." This paper offers an overview of the growth of this phenomenon by...
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Triple Play Time
Hollander, Claude; Hollander, Abraham - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Abstract: Digital convergence thrusts telephony, television and the internet into the socalled 'triple play' offerings, creating new forms of rivalry between cable operators and telephone companies. Markets participants feel compelled to enter new industries to survive, even though their core...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617150
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How and why communications industry suppliers get “squeezed out” by outsourcing: cases, impact and the next phases
Pau, Louis-François - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
The communications systems,terminals,and service, industries, have undergone over the past ten years a significant technological internal evolution and external revolution at customer end (such as shifting to IP, wireless 3G and LTE evolutions, new terminals, broadband...). Very little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021997
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What determines broadband uptake in emerging countries? An empirical study.
Badran, M.F. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Before recent technological developments in telecom the use of available fixed line was limited to voice telecommunication only. At present the high frequencies on the subscriber line were used for high speed internet access. This Internet access technology is generally referred to as broadband....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108792
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Cybersecurity in the perspective of Internet traffic growth
Kox, Henk L.M. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Private and public concern about digital security, cybercrime and data privacy is growing the last few years. If Internet-related markets are flexible enough to cope with security concerns, given time, one would expect that - per unit of Internet traffic - the number and costs of cybersecurity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112496
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Advanced Transport Telematics Systems and user requirements: An approach based on the experience gained in the port of Piraeus from the EUROSCOPE Project
Sambracos, Evangelos; Harissis, Harilaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
The article refers to the results of a survey that was conducted during the EUROSCOPE project in the port of Piraeus. The market research revealed the trends and needs of the port users and the drivers of the trucks, for proper information diffusion and application of special advanced transport...
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