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The interplay between regulation and competitions : the case of universal service obligations
Hörnig, Steffen; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2002
Regulators have long been aware of the social aspects of communication. In the past, regulated monopolists have provided Universal Service Obligations, typically funded via a system of cross-subsidies. In this paper, we first review the rationale for imposing Universal Service Obligations, based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409371
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Concentration and Competition : Evidence from Europe and Implications for Policy
Koltay, Gabor; Lorincz, Szabolcs; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2022
findings suggest that competition policy is likely to face more challenges as large companies are becoming more common in more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309961
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The Interplay Between Regulation and Competitions: The Case of Universal Service Obligations
Hoernig, Steffen H.; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2002
Regulators have long been aware of the social aspects of communication. In the past, regulated monopolists have provided Universal Service Obligations, typically funded via a system of cross-subsidies. In this paper, we first review the rationale for imposing Universal Service Obligations, based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315281
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The Interplay Between Regulation and Competitions: The Case of Universal Service Obligations
Hoernig, Steffen H.; Valletti, Tommaso M. - CESifo - 2002
Regulators have long been aware of the social aspects of communication. In the past, regulated monopolists have provided Universal Service Obligations, typically funded via a system of cross-subsidies. In this paper, we first review the rationale for imposing Universal Service Obligations, based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181574
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Symposium on Universal Service Obligation and Competition
Cave, Martin (contributor); Valletti, Tommaso M. (contributor) - Symposium on Universal Service Obligation and Competition - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001533775
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Competition in Communication Networks : Pricing and Regulation
Mason, Robin A.; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2006
received, many aspects of competition between networks are still poorly understood. We identify some of the key issues that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075502
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Vertical Bargaining and Countervailing Power
Iozzi, Alberto - 2014
welfare. Under downstream quantity competition, we find either no or opposite support to the hypothesis of countervailing … power on input prices, as the retail industry becomes more concentrated. With price competition, we find a case for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070245
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The EU Digital Markets Act : A Report from a Panel of Economic Experts
Cabral, Luis M. B.; Haucap, Justus; Parker, Geoffrey; … - 2021
intermediaries between businesses and consumers, and the difficulty for classic competition policy tools to deal effectively with … for a Digital Markets Act (DMA) to complement existing competition policy tools by means of ex-ante obligations for … anti-competitive behaviour are well-known from classic competition cases, data-driven multi-sided platforms have found new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245166
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Firm Size Distribution in Small Samples
Buzzacchi, Luigi; Valletti, Tommaso M. - In: Bulletin of Economic Research 56 (2004) 4, pp. 301-309
Sutton (1998) has recently proposed a theoretical lower bound to firm size inequality when a market is made of several independent submarkets. His results are valid asymptotically, as the number of submarkets becomes arbitrarily large. We show that, in small samples, his results can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005251293
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Exclusionary Pricing in Two-Sided Markets
Amelio, Andrea - 2020
This paper studies the incentives to engage in exclusionary pricing in the context of two-sided markets. Platforms are horizontally differentiated, and seek to attract users of two groups who single-home and enjoy indirect network externalities from the size of the opposite user group active on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841086