This article reports the results of an experimental study of the three firm location problem. We compare the subjects' behavior in the experiments with the symmetric mixed strategy Nash equilibrium calculated by Shaked. Overall, the findings are consistent with the equilibrium prediction....

The authors review recent scholarly and policy initiatives in respect of media pluralism and argue that contradictions between policy objectives, in analytical approaches and deficiencies in some established methodologies mean that robust conclusions have been hard to secure. They argue that...

Discussion of Internet governance has been shaped by three myths; that the market can decide, that the Internet is different to 'legacy' media, and that national governance is unimportant. This paper challenges these three myths through an examination of Internet governance in the UK in 2003/4...

Drawing principally on examples and literature from the Anglosphere, the author argues that the high salience given to "trust" and "trustworthiness" in recent scholarly literature, and which (notably in Putnam's work) attributes declining trust to a widely mistrusted mass media does not...

The BBC is active in an increasing number of markets. In some cases the BBC enters the market using licence fee income; in others its commercial operations have linkages with licence-fee activities--for example, by provision of resources for programme making, joint funding of programmes, trailing...

The introduction of digital terrestrial television in the UK exemplifies a globally representative change in media and communications policy whereby control of market entry has shifted from government to firms. In consequence, revision and reform of the institutional arrangements for media and...

An article by Gareth Locksley in the June 1983 issue of Telecommunications Policy argued that a major benefit of cable TV for the UK viewer would be increased choice. In this response, Richard Collins questions wheather real choice will be extended by cable and examines the syllogism put forward...

The study addresses the issue of sustainability of collusion in one-sided auctions. Earlier experimental studies indicate that, in double oral auctions, collusion is hard to sustain even if conspiracy is allowed and quotation improvement rules are absent. We investigate the role of similar...