. This study examines the effects of sector regulation on innovation in telecommunications and related information industries …) were utilized to test the effects of sectoral regulation. In line with other studies of the effects of regulation on … innovation, the study finds that more stringent regulation had a statistically significant negative effect on the number of …

Regulation in Europe has rested heavily on the historic monopolist asymmetrically providing its competitors with access … to its own copper local loop. When the regulation of fibre loops was contemplated, the European Commission initially … proposed in 2008 that Next Generation Access (NGA) regulation should rely on good access to passive infrastructure, in order to …

ways. While the period is characterized by a shift toward less direct state intervention, the intensity of regulation has …

findings, with some pointing to the advantages and other to the disadvantages of this arrangement. Government regulation of … government ownership and regulation might help overcome some of the shortcomings of the regulation of private firms. We find weak … evidence that public and mixed regulated firms were subject to more favourable regulation of interconnection prices. However …

how wholesale pricing regulation might affect this process; the introduction of differentiated wholesale remedies … interplay with access regulation. Using the recent economic literature, arguments and possible guidelines are proposed, which …