The liberalisation of the telecommunication sector has dispossessed regulators from the use of cross-subsidisation in order to achieve the universality goal. In a liberalised context, special tariff schemes represent one possible policy tool in order to increase the penetration rate. This paper...

Public intervention in high-tech sectors is often advocated to resolve market imperfections that may possibly limit the viability of young high-tech enterprises. Although some European countries have adopted national government support policies that explicitly target this type of firm, in Italy...