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This study attempted to analyze the effect of regulation and political stability in allocation of mobile … investment in telecommunications, a framework was developed to understand the factors that determine investments in telecom …
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This chapter estimates sustainable coverage and competitive effects of entry for Swiss newspaper sellers which sell composite goods, including a range of other products such as food and near-food items. It utilises the applied entry threshold ratio methodology from Bresnahan and Reiss (1991),...
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This paper investigates the incentives to invest in improving the quality (as distinguished to investment in a new … activity) in telecommunication industry using the empirical example of wireless markets. We highlight that investment … intensity and penetration rate. We show that there is a target amount of investment for each national market that firms strive …
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' migration to the new technology. When the quality of the old technology is exogenous and the entrant dominates investment in the … incumbent dominates investment. When the incumbent can decide on an endogenous upgrade of the old technology, the migration to …
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technology is exogenous and the entrant dominates investment in the new technology, the old technology is completely switched off … in equilibrium. On the other hand, when the incumbent dominates investment, the old technology persists. When the …
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suggests that consumers may benefit most from legal unbundling with strong regulation and parts of ownership given to a …
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of regulation in the new markets that cloud computing has created explains the emergence of new platforms and the pre …-emptive strategies used by major CC companies. Regulation or the absence of it, security and privacy are the most important factors that … regulatory authorities address the issues of regulation and security at both national and international levels, the orderly …
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the role that regulation plays may limit services innovation and in turn may mean that communications infrastructure could … investment and wider competition across platforms which would help realise Europe's objective to drive growth and competitiveness. …
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We study an industry in which an upstream monopolist supplies an essential input at a regulated price to several downstream firms. Legal unbundling means that a downstream firm owns the upstream firm but this upstream firm is legally independent and maximizes its own upstream profits. We allow...
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liberalisation and the introduction of regulation in the end of the 1990s, however, allowed new entrants to compete with incumbents … Switzerland) continued to have partially binding retail price regulation. More than a decade after liberalisation and the … introduction of wholesale and retail price regulation, sufficient data is available to empirically measure the success of …
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