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This paper analyses whether scale economies exists in the UK telecommunications industry. The approach employed differs from other UK studies in that panel data for a range of companies is used. This increases the number of observations and thus allows potentially for more robust tests for...
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This paper analyses whether scale economies exists in the UK telecommunications industry. The approach employed differs from other UK studies in that panel data for a range of companies is used. This increases the number of observations and thus allows potentially for more robust tests for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075200
) monopoly thesis. Recently, however, a trend towards deregulation of such industries has been observed. This trend started with …
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We consider a two-sided market model with a monopolistic Internet Service Provider (ISP), network congestion sensitive content providers (CPs), and Internet customers in order to study the impact of Quality-of-Service (QoS) tiering on service innovation, broadband investments, and welfare in...
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In this article we chart the development of competition and deregulation of the British retail energy markets, explaining the evolution of competitive constraints when consumers are introduced to supplier choice for the first time. In the context of rising real energy prices for consumers, and...
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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 …
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policy debate on interconnector expansion and studies two particular points. First, the effects of network regulation on the …
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to the Tribunal between October 1999 and September 2016,13 involved former or current SOCs. SOCs often hold monopoly … positions and control essentialinfrastructure and the record has been that of abuse of monopoly positions and evenleveraging … market power into adjacent markets. In addition, SOCs have often been protectedby policy and regulation with the result of …
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) monopoly thesis. Recently, however, a trend towards deregulation of such industries has been observed. This trend started with …
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