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Endogeneous regulatory delay and the timing of product innovation
Prieger, James E. - 2005
This paper endogenizes the interplay between innovation by a regulated firm and regulatory delay. When product innovation costs fall over time, an extra day of regulatory delay increases time to introduction by more than a day. In the signaling model, the firm therefore times its innovation to...
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Universal coverage, enhancing spacecom sector growth, and supporting democratic ethos: The role of satellite spectrum assignment
Jain, Rekha - 2023
Satellite communication is integral to Digital India, enabling ubiquitous broadband for the uncovered population and supporting satellite TV, the dominant source of infotainment. An enabling policy environment would help increase the market share of Indian satellite service providers from the...
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Mobile number portability
Buehler, Stefan; Haucap, Justus - 2003
effects. We examine how extensions such as MNP based on call-forwarding, termination fee regulation, and alternative means of …
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Regulation, innovation, and the introduction of new telecommunications services
Prieger, James E. - 2000
I examine the effects of FCC regulation on the innovation and introduction of advanced telecommunications services in … the U.S. An interim of lighter regulation provides an experiment to test the regulatory regime''s impact on innovation … would have if the stricter regulation had still been in place. Overall, firms would have introduced 62% more services 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.S. data covering all forms of access technology (chiefly DSL and cable modem), I look for evidence of unequal broadband availability in areas with high concentrations of poor,...
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Natural or unnatural monopolies in UK telecommunications?
Correa, Lisa - 2003
This paper analyses whether scale economies exists in the UK telecommunications industry. The approach employed differs from other UK studies in that panel data for a range of companies is used. This increases the number of observations and thus allows potentially for more robust tests for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284108
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India's platform economy and emerging regulatory challenges
Kathuria, Rajat; Kedia, Mansi; Bagchi, Kaushambi - 2021
The phenomenal rise of the platform economy has reshaped how economies operate across the world. The importance of digital platforms has never been more evident than in combatting the ongoing corona virus (Covid-19) pandemic. Even with the threat of a global recession looming large, technology...
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A review of universal-service policy
Hultkrantz, Lars - 2005
In some countries, like Sweden, regulatory reform of monopoly industries such as telecom and mail went ahead without much consideration to how competition would affect the universal provision of services. This paper reviews issues that ought to be considered in the process of shaping a...
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Influential News and Policy-making
Vaccari, Federico - 2022
directly harm the voter, but those that do so slightly can be wasteful of public resources. Regulation produced by politicians …
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Drug quality and safety issues in India
Chokshi, Maulik; Mongia, Rahul; Wattal, Vasudha - 2015
Today, the global pharmaceutical product value chain is becoming increasingly complex and this has led to the emergence of 'multiple quality standards' for medicines. But this non-uniformity in the quality of medicine is also contingent upon both the regulatory milieu in the country of...
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