In a companion note (Antitrust vs. Sector-specific Regulation in Telecom: What Works Best?), we argued that while the … and institutions as instruments of economic regulation, some sector-specific rules and specialized implementing … interconnection. In the present note, we look in more details at the regulation of interconnection drawing from the experience of New …

Commission's current decision to lift the ex ante regulation on the fixed-line telephony market. …

. This study examines the effects of sector regulation on innovation in telecommunications and related information industries …) were utilized to test the effects of sectoral regulation. In line with other studies of the effects of regulation on … innovation, the study finds that more stringent regulation had a statistically significant negative effect on the number of …

This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a … repeating AR-GARCH model, I compare the effect of three types of regulation which are categorized based on the addressed subject …, i.e. cross-market, country-specific and company-specific regulation. While standard event study approaches are a special …

how wholesale pricing regulation might affect this process; the introduction of differentiated wholesale remedies … interplay with access regulation. Using the recent economic literature, arguments and possible guidelines are proposed, which …

regulation and recently imposed fiber access regulations. Our main finding is that more stringent access regulations for both the …