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Market Power, Productivity and the EU Single Market Program : An Ex-Post Assessment on Italian Firm Level Data
Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 2001
factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood … shocks, provided they affect all firms randomly. Both market power and total factor productivity are estimated by applying …-sample of "most sensitive" firms a positive transitory shock to productivity growth rates is observed immediately after the …
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Final Report on Global Identification Standards for Counterparties and Other Financial Market Participants
Grody, Allan D. - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013037125
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The Diffusion of Mobile Telecommunications Services in the European Union
Gruber, Harald; Verboven, Frank - 2012
We study the determinants of the diffusion of mobile telecommunications services in the European Union in a logistic … model of technology diffusion. We find that the transition from the analogue to the digital technology during the early … nineties, and the corresponding increase in spectrum capacity, has had a major impact on the diffusion of mobile …
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Competition Policy and the Incentive to Innovate : The Dynamic Effects of Microsoft v. Commission
Spulber, Daniel F. - 2014
Microsoft v. Commission indicates a shift in competition policy at the expense of protections for intellectual property. The case applies "essential facilities" arguments to Microsoft's server operating system and "tying" arguments to its Windows Media Player. The dynamic effects of Microsoft v....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217332
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Interoperability and Foreclosure in the European Microsoft Case
Kuhn, Kai-Uwe; Van Reenen, John - 2014
In this paper we discuss some of the most important economic issues raised in European Commission vs. Microsoft (2004) concerning the market for work group servers. In our view, the most important economic issues relate to (a) foreclosure incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048367
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The IEEE-SA Revised Patent Policy and Its Definition of 'Reasonable' Rates : A Transatlantic Antitrust Divide?
Petit, Nicolas - 2016
The IEEE-SA updated patent policy and the Business Review Letter issued by the US DoJ have caused much discussion in the US (Sidak, 2015). The purpose of this paper is to assess whether a similarly lenient antitrust approach to Standard Setting Organizations’ (“SSOs”) rate setting policies...
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Modularity, Vertical Integration, and Open Access Policies : Towards a Convergence of Antitrust and Regulation in the Internet Age
Farrell, Joseph; Weiser, Phil - 2013
Antitrust law and telecommunications regulation have long adopted different stances on whether to mandate open access to information platforms. This article aims to help regulators and commentators incorporate both Chicago School and post-Chicago School arguments in evaluating this basic policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075170
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The Sharing Economy and Consumer Protection Regulation : The Case for Policy Change
Koopman, Christopher; Mitchell, Matthew D.; Thierer, Adam D. - 2018
The rise of the sharing economy has changed how many Americans commute, shop, vacation, and borrow. It has also disrupted long-established industries, from taxis to hotels, and has confounded policymakers. In particular, regulators are trying to determine how to apply many of the traditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014036638
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The Diffusion of Mobile Telecommunications Services in the European Union
Gruber, Harald; Verboven, Frank - 2012
The paper investigates into the determinants of the diffusion of mobile telecommunications services in the European … significant and positive impact on the diffusion. The impact of introducing competition was also significant, during both the … expected only by the year 2006. The empirical results remain robust when other possible determinants of diffusion are included …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014168881
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Looking beyond the R&D effects on innovation : the contribution of non-R&D activities to total factor productivity growth in the EU
López Rodríguez, Jesús; Martínez-López, Diego - 2014
traditional macro approach to estimating the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) does not handle them well. To counter … jointly considering the effects of R&D and the impact of non-R&D innovation activities on the productivity levels of firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380964