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We study the trade-offs faced by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that serve as platforms through which consumers access both television and internet services. As online streaming video improves, these providers may respond by attempting to steer consumers away from streaming video toward their...
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allow CLECs to lease their local network facilities was established in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as part of a quid …
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Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary …
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What is the role of startups within the innovation ecosystem? Since 2000, startups have grown in their share of … ventures in the innovation process relative to more traditional alternatives such as academia and established private … generate predictions related to the value and impact of startup innovation. We then explore these predictions using patents …
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to invest in telecommunications. Results indicate that the irreversibility premium raises the opportunity cost of capital …
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Stock-market crashes tend to follow run-ups in prices. These episodes look like bubbles that gradually inflate and then suddenly burst. We show that such bubbles can form in a Zeira-Rob type of model in which demand size is uncertain. Two conditions are sufficient for this to happen: A declining...
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This paper documents and assesses the significance of the policy changes in China that WTO accession implies in 3 key service categories (banking, insurance, and telecoms), asking whether it is likely they will really be fully implemented in their entirety as undertaken at signature in 2002....
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The authors examine the role of differentiation strategies for entry behavior in markets for local telecommunication …' incentives to differentiate their services should shape the policy debate for competitive local telecommunications …
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telecommunications equipment and information technology which identifies the location of emergency callers. We begin by exploring the …This paper studies the causes and consequences of the adoption of technology by hospitals and public emergency response … patients to hospitals in several ways. First, patient severity affect the allocation of patients to high-technology hospitals …
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in the regulatory regimes for monopolies. The local telecommunication services industry has been liberalized … cases of electricity and telecommunications. The direction for future changes is also discussed …
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