We provide a structured overview of the quantitative literature on the economic impacts of telecommunications networks …

This paper provides an overview of telecommunications regulation in the U.S. and in Europe. For each region the history … of telecommunications regulations as well as the current regulatory regime is portrayed. The focus of this overview is on … telecommunications with Internet and broadcasting services. The criteria used by the regulatory authorities to identify those network …

analysis. These findings show that European Commission interventions are competition enhancing and support the expected … performance of the affected companies in the telecommunications sector. However, while country-addressing interventions and …. -- Regulation ; telecommunications ; company value …

In 2002, the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) introduced a Notice on the Competitive Treatment of Vertical … Restraints in Automobile Trade (‘Car Notice’). The objective of the Car Notice has been to strengthen competition in the Swiss … car market, in particular by avoiding price-fixing practices and market foreclosure and stimulating intrabrand competition …

This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly … East Germany which point to a substantial shift in industry structure. Minimum wages decreased both market entries and … competition for this group of firms and helped them to increase profitability. The increasing share of sole traders may indicate …

Although the future socio-economic benefits of a new fibre-based (“next generation access”, NGA) telecommunications …

national implementation. While the Second Regulatory Package balanced competition and investment aims, the new Regulatory … ; local loop competition ; regulatory independence …