both the economic literature on the enforcement of environmental regulations and the general economics of crime literature …

test the hypothesis that regulation reduces competition by raising barriers to entry, thereby lowering competitive pressure … and the incentives to innovate efficiently. I examine the impact of countries’ product market regulation on their relative … test the hypothesis that regulation reduces competition by raising barriers to entry, thereby lowering competitive pressure …

the emergence and decline of thetelecom bubble, the impact on pricing of digitization and the emergenceof Internet … conjunctionwith the history of regulation and antitrust intervention in thetelecommunications sector. After discussing the impact of …

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a … significant in most specifications for computer use. A similar pattern holds true for Internet use, except that telephone density … differentials. For computers, telephone density and regulatory quality are of second and third importance, while for the Internet …

Die Regulierung eines Marktes ist das Ergebnis eines komplexen Prozesses, der sowohl von politischen als auch … Regulierung beeinflussen können. Der erste Teil behandelt die Liberalisierung des Markteintritts im Mobilfunkmarkt in OECD Ländern … getroffene Selektion, dann zeigt es sich, dass die Regulierung zwar im allgemeinen in die gewünschte Richtung gearbeitet hat …