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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...
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There is still hardly any empirical evidence on how divergent broadband technologies, and, by extension, bandwidth levels, influence GDP growth, or on the extent of spatial externalities at a regional level. Our study aims to assess the economic benefits of high-speed broadband networks within...
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A broad-scale rollout and adoption of new high-speed broadband networks and services, respectively, is expected to generate innovative services for consumers and create a high potential for productivity increases and economic growth. However, there is no evidence available on the causal impact...
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Although the future socio-economic benefits of a new fibre-based ('next generation access', NGA) telecommunications infrastructure seem to be uncontroversial, a universal NGA coverage appears to be a rather unrealistic objective without government intervention. We contend, however, that the...
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regulation and recently imposed fiber access regulations. Our main finding is that more stringent access regulations for both the …
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most relevant regulatory measures - that is, co-investment models as well as different types of access regulation - we …
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regulation and recently imposed fiber access regulations. Our main finding is that more stringent access regulations for both the …
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regulation and recently imposed fiber access regulations. Our main finding is that more stringent access regulations for both the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732767
the third layer (i.e. regulation) with respect to retail voice telephony markets. Furthermore we will only emphasize on … price regulation as this mode of ex-ante regulation provokes by far most controversy. Regarding price regulation within … rational consumer behaviour) such multi-part tariffs have welfare-enhancing effects in case of classical monopoly regulation …
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