This paper evaluates the main measures that have been used to regulate the interconnection prices in the telecommunication sector. We show that many of the regulations that are applying the vast majority of countries have very little theoretical support, and we identify the restrictions that...

This study presents the competition beyond a single product market where a multi-product firm competes with monoproduct rivals through the use of different bundling strategies that impact the firms' incentives to make quality improvements in different ways. The pure bundling strategy can make...

This study presents the competition beyond a single product market where a multi-product firm competes with monoproduct rivals through the use of different bundling strategies that impact the firms' incentives to make quality improvements in different ways. The pure bundling strategy can make...

Electricity prices have seen a consistent upward trend since the implementation of Mexico's electricity market reform (EMR). This has been interpreted by some as a failure of the EMR. In this paper we study the determinants of such price increases. We calculate the generation cost curve of the...

Spanish Abstract: Las políticas ambientales y la dependencia del consumo de la energía eléctrica han llevado a las empresas del sector industrial a incluir novedosos sistemas de gestión. En Venezuela, la empresa Productos Alimex CA se ha dedicado a la producción de embutidos desde 1957 y es...

Electricity prices have seen a consistent upward trend since the implementation of Mexico's electricity market reform (EMR). This has been interpreted by some as a failure of the EMR. In this paper we study the determinants of such price increases. We calculate the generation cost curve of the...

En el presente trabajo se hace un análisis descriptivo de los mecanismos de regulación económica del servicio de telefonía pública básica conmutada local en Colombia entre los años 1999 a 2008, y se estudian sus desarrollos, se describe su funcionamiento, sus características económicas...

Resumen La regulación es una de las formas que tiene el Estado para intervenir en la Economía. Pero a menudo en la literatura no es claro el alcance de esta función, pues en muchos casos se restringe solo al análisis de las acciones del Estado para promover la competencia y, en otros, hace...