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Buehler, Stefan; Haucap, Justus - 2003

This paper examines the consequences of introducing mobile number portability (MNP). As MNP allows consumers to keep their telephone number when switching providers, it reduces consumers' switching costs. However, MNP may also cause consumer ignorance if telephone numbers no longer identify...

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When Should an Incumbent Be Obliged to Share its Infrastructure with an Entrant Under the General Competition Rules?

Bergman, Mats - 2003

According to the essential facilities doctrine, competition law requires an infrastructural monopoly to provide access. Under the "Bronner criterion", proposed by the EC Court, the doctrine is only applicable when an infrastructural duopoly is non-viable. This paper uses a simple model to...

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The Supply Side of the Digital Divide: Is There Equal Availability in the Broadband Internet Access Market?

Prieger, James E. - 2002

The newest dimension of the Digital Divide is access to broadband (high-speed) Internet service. Using comprehensive U …

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Telecommunications regulation and new services: A case study at the state level

Prieger, James E. - 2000

The effects that regulation has on the innovation and the introduction of new telecommunications services have not been …

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Infrastructure quality in deregulated industries: Is there an underinvestment problem

Buehler, Stefan; Schmutzler, Armin; Benz, Men-Andri - 2002

We investigate how various institutional settings affect a network provider's incentives to invest in infrastructure quality. Under reasonable assumptions on demand, investment incentives turn out to be smaller under vertical separation than under vertical integration, though we also provide...

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An experiment on learning with limited information: Nonconvergence, experimentation cascades, and the advantage of being slow

Friedman, Eric; Shor, Mikhael; Shenker, Scott; Sopher, Barry - 2000

We present the results of an experiment on learning in a continuous-time low-information setting. For a Cournot oligopoly with differentiated products, a dominance solvable game, we find little evidence of convergence to the Nash equilibrium. In an asynchronous setting, play tends toward the...

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Trade in land transport services: Railways

Mukherjee, Arpita; Sachdeva, Ruchika - 2004

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On the role of access charges under network competition

Buehler, Stefan; Schmutzler, Armin - 2005

We aim to clarify the role of access charges under two-way network competition, employing a reduced-form approach. Retaining the key features of specific network competition models but imposing less structure, we analyze the impact of changes in access charges on linear and non-linear retail...

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ICT use in the developing world: An analysis of differences in computer and internet penetration

Chinn, Menzie D.; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2006

Computer and Internet use, especially in developing countries, has expanded rapidly in recent years. Even in light of … Internet penetration, both currently and over time, we examine panel data for 161 countries over the 1999-2004 period. We … factors associated with computer and Internet penetration do not differ substantially between developed and developing …

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The platform economy in Europe: Results from the second ETUI Internet and Platform Work Survey

Piasna, Agnieszka; Zwysen, Wouter; Drahokoupil, Jan - 2022

This paper presents some of the key insights from the second wave of the ETUI Internet and Platform Work Survey (ETUI … allows us to estimate the proportion of internet and platform workers, and to identify their characteristics, in a way that … is generalisable to the working age population. We found the prevalence of internet and platform work to be relatively …

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