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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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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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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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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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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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Government Policies toward Information and Communication

Willmore, Larry - EconWPA - 2004

The development of what one might call 'modern' systems of information and communication began with the Gutenberg printing press in the 15th century, and progressed through the prepaid postal system, electric telegraph and telephone in the 19th century, radio and television broadcasting in the...

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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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Registrierung von Mobilfunk-Teilnehmern in Afrika bremst Wachstum im Mobilfunk

Jentzsch, Nicola - In: DIW Wochenbericht 79 (2012) 32, pp. 8-12

Sub-Saharan Africa is seen as a model region in terms of high growth rates in mobile phone use. The International …. Subsahara-Afrika gilt als Musterregion für hohe Wachstumsraten der Mobilfunk-Nutzung. Zwischen 2000 und 2011 haben mehr als 500 …

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