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Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic; Trade Integration and Economic Performance
Cas, Stephanie Medina; Swiston, Andrew; Barrot, Luis-Diego - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
This paper studies the potential for the export sector to play a more important role in promoting growth in Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (CAPDR) through deeper intra-regional and global trade integration. CAPDR countries have enacted many free trade agreements and other...
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Investment and Regulation in Telecommunications
Piatek, Stanislaw - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
investment and innovation within the area of sector specific regulation in telecoms. The encouragement of efficient investment is … return regulation. The law and the interplay of the interests of incumbents and alternative operators create a fertile soil … on regulatory practice so far, seeing as telecoms regulation is mostly directed at service competition and effective …
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Austrian-style gasoline price regulation: How it may backfire
Obradovits, Martin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In January 2011, a price regulation was established in the Austrian gasoline market which prohibits firms from raising … with consumer search, I show that in face of the regulation, firms will distort their prices intertemporally in such a way …
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Regulation of international roaming in the European Union—Lessons learned
Infante, Jorge; Vallejo, Ivan - In: Telecommunications Policy 36 (2012) 9, pp. 736-748
markets? (ii) Has the evolution of market dynamics in wholesale roaming improved competition? (iii) Is wholesale regulation … wholesale and retail levels, despite prices being well above costs and the significant margins allowed by regulation. Available … data from the period preceding the entry into force of the first EU roaming regulation also point to the same conclusion …
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Wettbewerbspolitischer Handlungsbedarf bei der Verknüpfung von zweiseitigen Märkten im Internet: Der Fall Google
Engelhardt, Sebastian von; Freytag, Andreas; Köllmann, … - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 62 (2013) 3, pp. 311-332
We discuss competition policy issues of vertical integration in internetbased two-sided markets against the background of the Google antitrust allegations. Network effects and economics of scale often lead to dominating companies, which are integrated over several markets. This implies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750347
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Competition, Competition Policy and Economic Growth
Böheim, Michael - In: WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports) 77 (2004) 10, pp. 751-768
"externally induced" competition-oriented structural reforms. In terms of product market regulation, Austria ranks in the middle …
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Advancing Global Trade: Pro Liberalisation and Development
Neary, Peter; Ainars S¡lesers; Krubasik, Edward G.; … - In: CESifo Forum 4 (2003) 2, pp. 52-67
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New Framework for Austrian Competition Policy
Böheim, Michael - In: WIFO Monatsberichte (monthly reports) 76 (2003) 7, pp. 515-528
With the amendment to the cartel law in 2002, a new institutional basis had been established for competition policy in Austria. Responding to domestic and European pressure to reform, legislators provided the groundwork for setting up the Federal Competition Authority and Federal Cartel...
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Wettbewerbspolitischer Handlungsbedarf bei der Verknüpfung von zweiseitigen Märkten im Internet: Der Fall Google
Engelhardt, Sebastian von; Freytag, Andreas; Köllmann, … - In: Zeitschrift fuer Wirtschaftspolitik 62 (2013) 3, pp. 311-332
We discuss competition policy issues of vertical integration in internetbased two-sided markets against the background of the Google antitrust allegations. Network effects and economics of scale often lead to dominating companies, which are integrated over several markets. This implies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820106
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Erfordern globale Unternehmensstrukturen globale Wettbewerbsregeln?
Böge, Ulf; Klodt, Henning; Schäfer, Wolf; Kerber, Wolfgang - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 59 (2006) 15, pp. 03-21
? Für Ulf Böge, Bundeskartellamt, sollte der Weg zu einer internationalen Wettbewerbspolitik nicht über eine »harte … allem für eine Internationalisierung der Wettbewerbspolitik aus. …
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