telecommunications regulator. The OECD has coordinated work on better regulation and impact assessment across its member states and also …Better regulation is intended to serve as a framework to increase economic competitiveness, ensuring that legislation … energy efficiency of consumer electronics). The United Kingdom was an early mover in better regulation, implementing a …

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 …

mobile telephony is attributed to the opening of markets for private players and lenient regulatory policy. However, markets … introduction of mandatory registration depresses growth in mobile penetration. -- Telecommunication ; government policy ; consumer …

concentration of incumbent utilities …

importance of industrial organization in shaping prospects for climate mitigation policy. Using a generalized difference … adopt a cap-and-trade program. I argue that the forced reduction in market share of incumbent utilities associated with …

-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation among investor-owned electric utilities in the late 1990s. I construct a …Under what conditions does cost-of-service regulation lead firms to distort costs? This paper analyzes changes in fuel … under cost-of-service regulation. I then show that the drop in the price of coal is associated with a reallocation of …

The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling … within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the … revenues. To evaluate the welfare effects of the regulation, we develop a framework that includes consumer surplus, retail and …

The literature on the effects of telecommunications infrastructure investments find positive macroeconomic effects … that policy intervention – as foreseen by the European Commission in its public policy targets – is only justified for … to society. Thus, it appears that – for the time being and according to the policy principle of “technological neutrality …

mobile telephony is attributed to the opening of markets for private players and lenient regulatory policy. However, markets …