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Delay due to multiple merger reviews in regulated industries is analysed empirically. Tests on a sample of over 500 mergers between 1990 and 1998 reveal that delay is 80% longer in regulated industries than unregulated industries
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One of the most contentious debates in modern telecommunications policy regards whether or not a regulatory mandated reductions in the per-minute costs of long distance carriers - access charges domestically and settlement rates internationally - are fully reflected in the per-minute prices for...
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This POLICY PAPER examines whether there is a relationship between regulated rates for "unbundled local loops" and deployment of broadband technology by incumbents and entrants. Using an econometric model that analyzes 2002 and 2003 local loop rates and takes into account price variability and...
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The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the "1996 Act"), by stressing the reduction or elimination of entry barriers that prevent the fragmentation of market structure and an increase in the number of competitors, established competition and deregulation as the foundation for public policy towards...
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to work. In this PAPER, we use the 2007 Computer and Internet Use Supplement of the Census Bureau’s Current Population … Survey to estimate the effect of Internet use on job search, and we find this effect to be significant. Our empirical model … discouragement by over 50 percent (50%). Dialup Internet use also has a statistically significant effect, reducing labor market …
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In this paper, we apply pair-wise Propensity Score matching approach to the question of Internet use and job search. As … in Phoenix Center Policy Paper No. 39, Internet use of all types is found to reduce labor market discouragement by about …
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decline, and the sales of Internet content providers would also decline. Moreover, rules that prohibit the market from …
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The purpose of this Policy Paper is to examine empirically the relative impact that a regulatory mandate like network neutrality would have on high-cost areas and to compare that relative burden to lower-cost urban areas. We find areas that are, on average, high-cost could be disproportionately...
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’s efforts to promote an “Open Internet” into legal limbo. In response, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has announced that he … so doing, the Commission would ostensibly create some sort of “Title II Lite” regulation for broadband Internet services …
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One of the most heated debates in the current efforts to re-write the Communications Act has been whether the federal government should impose "Network Neutrality" requirements on broadband service providers. While we argue neither for nor against the need for Network Neutrality legislation in...
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