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strive for framework conditions that enable or even better facilitate innovation as well as dynamic competition. Ultimately …
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competition. The purpose of the paper is to compare the different available architectures. …
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The road safety literature is typified by a high degree of compartmentalization between studies that focus on infrastructure and traffic conditions and those devoted to the evaluation of public policies and regulations. As a result, few studies adopt a unified empirical framework in their...
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In this paper, we study how the coexistence of access regulations for legacy (copper) and fiber networks shapes the incentives to invest in network infrastructure. To this end, we develop a theoretical model explaining investment incentives by incumbent telecom operators and heterogeneous...
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There can be no doubt that the FANG companies – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – have transformed society since their emergence. Like all social transformations, the changes wrought by their services have had ripple effects that are both positive and negative. On...
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predicted the level of complex and competition will rise in whole market. The business expansion from scale of economies and the … operators affect the competition between mobile operators and OTT service providers. One is network neutrality and the other is …
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In 2000, there were as many countries served by a single mobile network as by network competition. Today, only 30 … low coverage, inefficient duplication of costs and lack of competition. To date, the authors are not aware of such single … light on the expected performance of single wholesale networks. The key result is that countries with network competition …
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Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...
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Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – the FANG companies – have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. Soaring consumer access to information, news, social networks, and entertainment has been stimulated by the ever-more ubiquitous and falling...
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