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Our study aims at assessing the actual importance of the two main channels usually contemplated in the literature through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in ICT. We thus precisely try to estimate what are the...
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cornerstone of market definition and therefore of effective regulation. This paper explores the access substitution between fixed …
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liberalisation and the introduction of regulation in the end of the 1990s, however, allowed new entrants to compete with incumbents … Switzerland) continued to have partially binding retail price regulation. More than a decade after liberalisation and the … introduction of wholesale and retail price regulation, sufficient data is available to empirically measure the success of …
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This paper examines the impact of start-up regulations and institutional quality on the level of new business activity in a panel of 119 countries between 2001 and 2012. We find robust evidence that new business creation is significantly lower in countries with excessive barriers to entry, a...
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We analyze the pass-through of cost changes to retail tariffs in the German electricity market over the 2007 to 2014 period. We find an average pass-through rate of around 60%, which significantly varies with demand factors: while the pass-through rate to baseline tariffs, where firms have...
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We analyze the pass-through of cost changes to retail tariffs in the German electricity market over the 2007 to 2014 period. We find an average pass-through rate of around 60%, which significantly varies with demand factors: while the pass-through rate to baseline tariffs, where firms have...
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existence and magnitude of this effect. Our results suggest that although regulation reduced termination rates by about 10 …
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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 …
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This paper sets out a framework to estimate quality-adjusted price levels and price changes for fixed broadband services in OECD countries. We extend and adapt existing hedonic frameworks for international and interarea comparisons and consider the extended country product dummy approach....
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We empirically assess whether a usually expected negative response of private consumption and private investment to a … there is a fiscal consolidation; iii) there is a crowding-in effect for private investment, from fiscal contractions …
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