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Net Neutrality : A Fast Lane to Understanding the Trade-Offs
Greenstein, Shane M. - 2016
The “net neutrality” principle has triggered a heated debate and advocates have proposed policy interventions. In this paper, we provide perspective by framing issues in terms of the positive economic factors at work. We stress the incentives of market participants, and highlight the...
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Mandatory Unbundling and Irreversible Investment in Telecom Networks
Pindyck, Robert S. - 2021
This paper addresses the impact on investment incentives of the network sharing arrangements mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, with a focus on the implications of irreversible investment. Although the goal is to promote competition, the sharing rules now in place reduce incentives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247857
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Merchant Transmission Investment
Joskow, Paul L.; Tirole, Jean - 2021
We examine the performance attributes of a merchant transmission investment framework that relies on market driven' transmission investment to provide the infrastructure to support competitive wholesale markets for electricity. Under a stringent set of assumptions, the merchant investment model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218795
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From Nothing to Too Much : Regulatory Reform in Greece
Hatzis, Aristides N.; Nalpantidou, Sonia - 2013
make the situation worse, an impact assessment analysis should accompany every law and every regulation of every Ministry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221615
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Taxation by Telecommunications Regulation
Hausman, Jerry A. - 2021
Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248105
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Political Determinants of Competition in the Mobile Telecommunication Industry
Faccio, Mara - 2017
government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965433
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Antitrust and Regulation
Carlton, Dennis W. - 2007
Since the passage of the Interstate Commerce Act (1897) and the Sherman Act (1890), regulation and antitrust have … operated as competing mechanisms to control competition. Regulation produced cross-subsidies and favors to special interests … antitrust and regulation. Antitrust and regulation can also be viewed as complements in which regulation and antitrust assign …
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Hong Kong'S Business Regulation in Transition
Wu, Changqi; Cheng, Leonard K.H - 2021
. In this paper, we review the evolution of business regulation in Hong Kong, analyze the salient features of its scheme of … control regulation and evaluate the impact of transition from regulation to competition. To provide a sharp contrast between … the difficulties of the traditional approach to regulation and the benefits of introducing competition, we focus on the …
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Beyond Goods and Services : Competition Policy, Investment, Mutual Recognition, Movement of Persons, and Broader Cooperation Provisions of Recent Ftas Involving ASEAN Countries
Dayaratna-Banda, O. G.; Whalley, John - 2021
We discuss recent bilateral, regional, and country trade, partnership, and economic agreements involving both ASEAN as a single entity and individual ASEAN countries (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia) focusing on their reach beyond conventional trade in goods and services issues. What emerges is of...
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Competition Laws and Corporate Innovation
Levine, Ross; Lin, Chen; Wei, Lai; Xie, Wensi - 2022
A central debate in economics concerns the relationship between competition and innovation, with some stressing that competition discourages innovation by reducing post-innovation rents and others emphasizing that more contestable markets spur currently dominant and other firms to invest more in...
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