With the advent of digital convergence, incumbent telephone and cable companies have begun to offer their services, such as voice telephony, Internet and TV in so-called triple play packages. While carefully recognizing the technological, legal and economic framework of the fixed-line...

This book brings together contributions of a distinguished panel of regulators as well as lawyers and economists from both academia and industry to present their insights on the digital convergence phenomenon in the telecommunications industry. The contributions cover a great deal of the...

My dissertation examines the profiability of bundling and the impact of an a la carte regulation in a two-sided market. This is primarily motivated by the ongoing debate about whether TV cable operators should be forced to offer TV channels on an a la carte basis, as opposed to the current...

Imports are increasingly becoming a significant source of Japan's pork supply. Japan's share of imports to total consumption increased from 9 percent in 1980 to 24 percent in 1990, reaching a maximum of 44 percent in 1996. Under the World Trade Organization (WTO) safeguard provisions for pork,...

The AGMEMOD Partnership seeks to capture the inherent existingheterogeneity of agricultural systems by linking together individualEU Member State models, an aggregated EU model and severalaccession countries into one single model, while still maintaininganalytical consistency. Although this...

The objective of this paper is to assess empirically the impacts of further reform of the CommonAgricultural Policy (CAP) on the agri-food sector in Finland. To meet the objective, aneconometric model for Finnish agriculture - built as a part of the AGMEMOD project - wasutilised. The projection...

This paper provides a summary measure of the possible new commitments in the area of market access undertaken by the European Union and the United States, using the Trade Restrictiveness Index (TRI) as the tariff aggregator. Indicators such as the TRI, based on welfare theory, integrate economic...

This study provides an in-depth modelbased quantitative analysis of the implications of thedairy policy reform on the milk and dairy market aswell as on other agricultural markets in the EU27,EU15, EU12 and the individual MS. The objectives ofthe study are threefold:1. to assess the implications...

The paper considers the use of directed acyclic graphs (DAGs), and their construction from observational data with PC-algorithm TETRAD II, in providing over-identifying restrictions on the innovations from a vector autoregression. Results from Sims’ 1986 model of the US economy are replicated...

We know very little about how a firm would compare against its peers when evaluated from a multiple-stakeholder perspective where the same variables are interpreted differently. Since most medium-to-large organizations acknowledge the multi-dimensional nature of their operations, finding out the...