Philippines has largely utilized privatization as a major approach to the development of infrastructure, particularly in power …, water, transport, and telecommunications sectors. To provide a legal framework for private sector participation in … for the Philippines, focusing on the power and telecommunications sectors. This study will primarily evaluate the existing …

this paper studies the paradigmatic case of telecommunications reform in Costa Rica it underscores the importance of these …

We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the …

We analyze the welfare consequences of an increase in the commissions charged by the organizer of an auction … of tax incidence in consumer economics. We argue, however, that auction markets deserve a separate treatment. Indeed we …

from auction alternatives in recent years, despite significantly lower costs in both direct fees and initial underpricing … when using the auction mechanism. This paper shows that in the French market, where the frequency of book-building and …

We investigate experimentally whether emotions affect bidding behavior in a firstprice auction. To induce emotions, we … confront subjects after a first auction series with apositive or negative random economic shock. We then explore the relation … between emotions andbidding behavior in a second auction series. Our main results are: (i) the economic shock has asubstantial …

and organizational challenges. This work provides an auction-based coordination mechanism that enables the allocation and …

In this paper the sequence of winning bids in the public auction of used cars in New Jersey is examined for the … sale. In a further contrast to many other studies, these data indicate that the prices tend to increase as the auction …