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Regulation and Investment in Network Industries: Evidence from European Telecoms
Grajek, Michał; Röller, Lars-Hendrik - 2009
We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications …
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Regulation and investment in network industries: Evidence from European telecoms
Grajek, Michał; Röller, Lars-Hendrik - 2009
We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270806
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Access Regulation and Investment in Next Generation Networks: A Ranking of Regulatory Regimes
Nitsche, Rainer; Wiethaus, Lars - 2009
This paper analyses how different types of access regulation to next generation networks affect investments and consumer welfare. The model consists of an investment stage with uncertain returns and subsequent quantity competition. The access price is a function of investment costs and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352102
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Price-cap-Regulierung: Ein Fortschritt in der Tarifpolitik?
Lang, Günter - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 75 (1995) 5, pp. 273-277
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Optional linear input prices in vertical relations
Salim, Claudia - 2009
This paper examines how the option of a regulated linear input price affects vertical contracting, where a monopolistic upstream supplier sequentially offers supply contracts to two symmetric downstream firms. We find that equilibrium contracts vary with production cost and regulated price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334078
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Liberalisation of network industries: Is the electricity sector an exception to the rule?
Coppens, François; Vivet, David - 2004
telecommunications is in line with micro-economic theory, which predicts an increase in efficiency and lower prices when markets are … the successful introduction of competition in the telecommunications sector. The main reason behind this success is that … opened up to competition. The success in the telecommunications sector is often used as an argument for opening up other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506581
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Mobile Termination with Asymmetric Networks
Dewenter, Ralf; Haucap, Justus - 2003
This paper examines mobile termination fees and their regulation when networks are asymmetric in size. It is demonstrated that with consumer ignorance about the exact termination rates (a) a mobile network's termination rate is the higher the smaller the network's size (as measured through its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263389
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On the Distribution of Calls in a Wireless Network driven by Fluid Traffic
Ule, Aljaz; Boucherie, Richard J. - 2000
This note develops a modelling approach for wireless networks driven byfluid traffic models. Introducing traffic sets that follow movement ofsubscribers, the wireless network with time-varying rates is transformedinto a stationary network at these traffic sets, which yields that thedistribution...
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Mobile Number Portability
Buehler, Stefan; Haucap, Justus - 2003
This paper examines the consequences of introducing mobile number portability (MNP). As MNP allows consumers to keep their telephone number when switching providers, it reduces consumers' switching costs. However, MNP may also cause consumer ignorance if telephone numbers no longer identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263405
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Mobile number portability
Buehler, Stefan; Haucap, Justus - 2003
This paper examines the consequences of introducing mobile number portability (MNP). As MNP allows consumers to keep their telephone number when switching providers, it reduces consumers' switching costs. However, MNP may also cause consumer ignorance if telephone numbers no longer identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315528