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Bundling in Telecommunications
Garcéa-Mariñoso, Begoña; Martinez-Giralt, Xavier; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2008
The paper offers an overview of the literature on bundling in the telecommunications sector and its application in the Spanish market. We argue that the use of bundling in the provision of services is associated to technological reasons. Therefore, there appears no need to regulate bundling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547193
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Electricity and telecoms reforms in the EU: Insights from the economics of federalism
Trillas, Francesc - IESE Business School, Universidad de Navarra - 2010
The economics of federalism is a broad discipline with more than five decades of experience. It may shed light on how regulatory jurisdiction is allocated in EU electricity and telecommunications markets. Specifically, this paper assesses the evolution of reform up to and including the third EU...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008641477
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Local Loop Unbundling in Europe: Experience, Prospects and Policy Challenges
Bijl, Paul W.J. de; Peitz, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
paper also explores the challenges for policy and regulation that arise because of unbundling and recent, related …This paper discusses the development of local loop unbundling in telecommunications markets throughout the European …. Different types of unbundling, allowing for different types of entry and services provided by entrants, are discussed. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616682
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Local Loop Unbundling in Europe: Experience, Prospects and Policy Challenges
Bijl, Paul W.J. de; Peitz, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
paper also explores the challenges for policy and regulation that arise because of unbundling and recent, related …This paper discusses the development of local loop unbundling in telecommunications markets throughout the European …. Different types of unbundling, allowing for different types of entry and services provided by entrants, are discussed. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621357
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Who should pay for two-way interconnection?
Hurkens, Sjaak; López, Angel L. - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
differences in termination regulation and retail pricing models and one may wonder why this occurred and whether either of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010851429
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Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)
Harbord, David; Hoernig, Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; networkbased price discrimination; and call externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468563
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Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)
Harbord, David; Hoernig, Steffen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; networkbased price discrimination; and call externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529327
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Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger
Harbord, David; Hoernig, Steffen - Faculdade de Economia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - 2012
We present a calibrated model of the UK mobile telephony market with four mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; network-based price discrimination; and call externalities. Our results show that reducing mobile termination rates broadly in line with the recent European Commission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600831
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Japan
Høj, Jens; Wise, Michael - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth of productivity have been low in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045937
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Australia
Ziegelschmidt, Helmut; Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005
The OECD Growth Study and other empirical work have shown that the strength of competition in product markets plays an important role in the economic growth process as well as contributing to a more efficient allocation of resources in a static sense. More intense competition is likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046185