The paper assesses the scope for competition inducing infrastructure regulation in furthering the diffusion of innovation. The paper uses data on the adoption of broadband services comprising a global panel of 167 countries. The effects of different regulatory provisions are assessed. The result...

Broadband adoption and its applications have been found to affect economic growth, innovativeness, political representation and individual welfare. As such, network infrastructures are now central in the political agenda with modern economies largely dependent on the vast spillover effects of...

This paper evaluates the net benefits of the implementation of the broadband infrastructure deployment targets by 2020 as entailed by the Digital Agenda for Europe Initiative set forth by the European Commission. We estimate the returns from broadband infrastructure for the period 2005-2011,...

This paper looks at the broadband telecommunications sector to unravel the relationships between sector regulation and investment behaviour in the European Union. Cost based access pricing regimes, although successful in attracting new entrants, have negatively affected the investment in fixed...

The paper addresses the determinants of diffusion of broadband infrastructure by looking a the US Federal States. It tries to identify in particular to what extent intra- and inter-platform competition contribute to accelerating the speed of diffusion. Panel data analysis results indicate that...

The paper assesses the scope for competition inducing infrastructure regulation in furthering the diffusion of innovation. The paper uses data on the adoption of broadband services comprising a global panel of 167 countries. The effects of different regulatory provisions are assessed. Inter-firm...

This paper looks at the broadband telecommunications sector to unravel the relationships between sector regulation and investment behaviour in the European Union. Cost based access pricing regimes, although successful in attracting new entrants, have negatively affected the investment in fixed...

Panel data analysis for the U.S. states indicates that the speed of broadband diffusion is clearly driven by inter-platform competition while competition on the platform has an ambiguous if not negative impact. The diffusion speed diminishes with the number of firms and the size of the firms....