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Is Market-Oriented Reform Producing a “Two-Track” Europe? Evidence from Electricity and Telecommunications

Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The European Commission has formally recognised that adequate provision of basic household services, including energy, communications, water and transport, is key to ensuring equity, social cohesion and solidarity. Yet little research has been done on the impact of the reform of these services...

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Infrastructure regulation: what works, why, and how do we know?

Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Public infrastructure services have been subject to dramatic regulatory reform since the 1980s in the European Union, particularly privatization, at the national level, and increased liberalization and deregulation, via the Single Market Programme. Despite this ambitious reform programme, there...

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Implications of Mandatory Registration of Mobile Phone Users in Africa

Jentzsch, Nicola - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa ranks among the top regions in terms of growth in the number of mobile phone users. The success of … may be increasingly saturated and new regulations introduced across Africa could also have a negative impact on future … upon a panel dataset of 32 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa for the years 2000 to 2010. The results show that the …

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Cellular Service Demand: Biased Beliefs, Learning, and Bill Shock

Grubb, Michael D.; Osborne, Matthew - In: American Economic Review 105 (2015) 1, pp. 234-71

Following FCC pressure to end bill shock, cellular carriers now alert customers when they exceed usage allowances. We estimate a model of plan choice, usage, and learning using a 2002-2004 panel of cellular bills. Accounting for firm price adjustment, we predict that implementing alerts in...

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How consumers’ socio-economic background influences satisfaction: Insights for better utility regulation

Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Augmenting consumer welfare was a key justification behind the reform of utilities from the 1980s. But, three decades later, evidence is mounting that consumer satisfaction with household utilities is quite uneven. Moreover, governments, regulators and international organizations are...

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Rational Regulatory Policy for the Digital Economy: Theory and EU Policy Options

Welfens, Paul J.J. - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2006

Telecommunications is a key element of the ICT sector which has been shaped by strong innovation dynamics since the 1990s. Market dynamics in OECD telecommunications markets are analyzed. We present new ideas about efficient regulation, emphasizing the need to adopt a broader international...

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The Determinants and Impact of Telecommunications Reform in Developping Countries

Gasmi, Farid; Recuero Virto, Laura - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2008

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Are Unbundled and Self-supplied Telecommunications Switching Substitutes? An Empirical Study

Beard, T. Randolph; Ford, George - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 12 (2005) 2, pp. 163-181

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires incumbent monopoly phone companies to lease elements of their networks to rivals. An important policy question is whether these unbundled elements are substitutes for entry modes that are more facilities-based. In this article, we estimate demand...

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Regulatory Reform: Economic Analysis and British Experience

Armstrong, Mark; Cowan, Simon; Vickers, John - The MIT Press

Regulatory reform had its beginnings in the United States in the 1970s, and today it is taking place around the globe. One of the central questions for industrial policy is how to regulate firms with market power. Regulatory Reform tackles this important policy issue in two parts: it describes...

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Can Two-Part Tariffs Promote Efficient Investment on Next Generation Networks?

Brito, Duarte; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, João - Autoridade de Concorrência, Government of Portugal - 2008

We analyze if two-part access tariffs solve the dynamic consistency problem of the regulation of Next Generation Networks. We model the industry as a duopoly, where a vertically integrated incumbent and a downstream entrant, that requires access to the incumbent's network, compete on Hotelling's...

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