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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-way Access Pricing:Two-Part Tariffs
Jeon, Doh-Shin; Hurkens, Sjaak - Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Institute for Economic Analysis - 2007
such as consumer surplus,network coverage or investment: in particular, we show that theregulator can achieve static and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435112
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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing:Termination-Based Price Discrimination with Elastic Subscription Demand
Hurkens, Sjaak; Jeon, Doh-Shin - Universitat Pompeu Fabra; Universitat Pompeu Fabra - 2008
We study how access pricing affects network competition when consumers'subscription demand is elastic and networks compete with non-linearprices and can use termination-based price discrimination. In the caseof a fixed per minute termination charge, our model generalizes theresults of Gans and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435152
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Pricing and interconnection agreements in network markets
Martin Reichhuber - 2008
Ever since the beginning of the nineties, interconnection pricing emerged as a high priority regulatory policy question. As more and more state-owned monopolies were privatized, their essential facility (or simply their network) had to be opened to competition. The most viable practice was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429009
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Infrastructure investment in network industries: The role of incentive regulation and regulatory independence
Egert, Balazs - 2009
-of-return regulation because investment decisions (what can be included in the rate base) are usually evaluated in a discretionary manner …This paper finds that coherent regulatory policies can boost investment in network industries of OECD economies. Rate …-of-return regulation is generally thought to result in overinvestment, while incentive regulation is believed to entail underinvestment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477393
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The dynamic relationship between firm capabilities, regulatory policy, and environmental performance: renewable energy policy and investment in the U.S. electric utility sector.
Fremeth, Adam Ryan - 2009
regards to a pending public policy of variable stringency. I test this theory within the context of the regulation and … investment of renewable power in the U.S. electric utility sector and the growth of a utility scale renewable energy industry. I …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009462765
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The role of human capital and strategic intent in internationalisation scope of new technology-based firms
Coeurderoy, Regis; Davidsson, Per; Tywoniak, Stephane - 2008
This paper explores the internationalization scope of new technology based firms (NTBFs) during their early years of operation. Internationalization is considered as a growth strategy in its own right whose successful implementation requires relevant resources and capabilities. We focus on the...
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Levels of Farm Sector Productivity: An International Comparison.
Ball, V. Eldon; Bureau, Jean-Christophe; Butault, … - 2001
This articlefocuses on the relative levels of farm sector productivity forthe United States and nine European countries for the period1973 to 1993. At the beginning of the period, Belgium had thehighest level of productivity relative to the United States at1.689. Ireland had the lowest relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429491
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Remote sensing support for national forest inventories.
McRoberts, Ronald E.; Tomppo, Erkki O. - 2007
National forest inventory programs are tasked to produce timely and accurate estimates for a wide range of forest resource variables for a variety of users and applications. Time, cost, and precision constraints cause these programs to seek technological innovations that contribute to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429540
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The Geography of New Manufacturing Technology: Implications for the Nonmetropolitan South.
McGranahan, David A. - 1999
Despite the growth in services. manufacturing remains an essential part of the nonmetropolitan South's economy, responsible for 25 percent of total personal earnings. But loweducation nonmetropolitan areas, which gained more than their share of manufacturing jobs in the 1970s and 1980s, lost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429555
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Competition aspects of pricing access to networks: what are the issues?
Michie, Jonathan - 1998
The introduction of competition between service providers in industries with some sort of network - such as telecommunications, but also gas and electricity - has created the regulatory problem of access pricing. Where a service provider requires access to a network owned by another firm, how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441429