Termination of a telephone call can only be realized by the network operator of the receiving party. For this reason, the markets for fixed and mobile call termination are regulated ex-ante including price control. To determine the costs of call termination the current regulatory regime...

It is common knowledge that Next Generation Access (NGA) networks require significant investments and that for many regions, especially in more rural areas, there is no viable business case. Taking note of the broadband strategies formulated by European governments the deployment cost is...

This paper analyzes the impact on mobile telephony diffusion patterns of the two predominant payment regimes, calling party pays (CPP) and receiving party pays (RPP), for mobile termination services. By applying instrumental variable techniques to panel data we account for a possible...

Broadband internet expansion is a topic of widespread discussion in Germany right now. But the country still has not met its own targets. Almost 100 percent of households are supplied with broadband connections with up to six megabits per second, yet Germany has lots of room to catch up when it...

Der Ausbau des Breitbandinternets wird gegenwärtig intensiv diskutiert. Doch noch hinkt Deutschland den gesteckten Zielen hinterher. Zwar sind inzwischen fast 100 Prozent der Haushalte mit Breitbandanschlüssen bis sechs Megabit pro Sekunde versorgt, doch bei gigabitfähigen Anschlüssen hat...

This paper develops a political-economy model of price regulation. Firms' lobbying activity for a given regulatory status might generate a simultaneity problem between the effects and the determinants of regulatory decisions. We explicitly model this two way causality, and empirically test our...

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries have promoted important reforms in the natural gas sector, in a similar way as in their electricity sectors, breaking the prevailing vertical integration model, characterised by territorial monopolies. The 2021 New Gas Law...

This study examines the extent and influence of occupational licensing in the U.S. using a specially designed national labor force survey. Specifically, we provide new ways of measuring occupational licensing and consider what types of regulatory requirements and what level of government...