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The impact of regulation and competition on the migration from old to new communications infrastructure : recent evidence from EU27 member states

Briglauer, Wolfgang - 2014

policies and competition controlling for relevant supply and demand side factors. Our econometric model employs dynamic panel … impact on investment in new infrastructure. Furthermore, infrastructure-based competition from mobile operators and the …

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The impact of alternative public policies on the deployment of new communications infrastructure : a survey

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Frübing, Stefan; Vogelsang, Ingo - 2015

regulatory holidays or geographically differentiated regulations, ii) deregulatory approaches based on effective competition law … of access regulations exist, whereas only a much smaller branch of literature addresses the impact of competition … in grey areas, if there is sufficient pressure from competitive outside options and if competition law is strong. Finally …

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Did Africa's first choices matter? : growth legacies of leaders at independence

Jørgensen, Christina Mangaard; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2015

We explore the potential effects of the first leaders of Sub-Saharan Africa. We first outline a set of theoretical reasons for why leaders may matter particularly at the critical juncture of African independence and why this influence may be persistent. In an unbalanced panel from 40 African...

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Legitimacy and the cost of government

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Lipka, David - 2014

While previous research documents a negative relationship between government size and economic growth, suggesting an economic cost of big government, a given government size generally affects growth differently in different countries. As a possible explanation of this differential effect, we...

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Does economic freedom boost growth for everyone?

Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2019

While the association between economic freedom and long-run economic growth is well documented, the parallel research literature on the distributional consequences of economic freedom is full of conflicting findings. In this paper, we take a step towards reconciling the two literatures by...

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Economic freedom and economic crisis

Bjørnskov, Christian - 2015

In this paper, I explore the politically contested association between the degree of capitalism, captured by measures of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on...

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Speeding up the internet : regulation and investment in European fiber optic infrastructure

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Cambini, Carlo; Grajek, Michał - 2017

In this paper we study how the coexistence of access regulations for legacy (copper) and fiber networks shapes the incentives to invest in network infrastructure. To this end, we develop a theoretical model explaining investment incentives by incumbent telecom operators and heterogeneous...

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The European electronic communications code : a critical appraisal with a focus on incentivizing investment in next generation broadband networks

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Cambini, Carlo; Fetzer, Thomas; … - 2017

In September 2016, the European Commission (EC) published its proposal for a directive establishing the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) - with one key aim being the provision of sufficient incentives for infrastructure investments into high-speed communication networks. Based on a...

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Speeding up the internet : regulation and investment in European fiber optic infrastructure

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Cambini, Carlo; Grajek, Michał - 2017

In this paper we study how the coexistence of access regulations for legacy (copper)and fiber networks shapes the incentives to invest in network infrastructure. To this end, we develop a theoretical model explaining investment incentives by incumbent telecom operators and heterogeneous entrants...

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Go for gigabit? : first evidence on economic benefits of (ultra-)fast broadband technologies in Europe

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Gugler, Klaus - 2018

The literature on the effects of telecommunications infrastructure investments find positive macroeconomic effects, however, it is severely constrained because it could hitherto only analyze investment up to "basic" broadband but not up to the newer generations of "fast" and "ultra-fast"...

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