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Endogenous Deregulation : Evidence from OECD Countries
Duso, Tomaso; Röller, Lars-Hendrik - 2003
This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the effect of endogenous deregulation on productivity. We find that treating deregulation across OECD countries as an exogenous event overestimates the competitive impact of deregulation on productivity by as much as 40%
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074588
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Auditors General and Telecommunications
Sutherland, Ewan - 2009
The role of the auditor general ranges from accounting to thorough-going analysis of the performance of organisations. In many countries the Auditor-General has reviewed the performance of the telecommunications regulatory authority which provides parliaments and the public with an insight that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204298
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An experiment for regulatory policy on broadband speed advertising
Timmons, Shane; McElvaney, Terence J.; Lunn, Pete - 2019
Identifying whether hyperbolic advertising claims influence consumers is important for consumer protection, but differentiating mere "puffery" from misleading advertising is not straightforward. We conducted a pre-registered experiment to determine whether pseudo-technical advertising claims...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012123243
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Behavioral economics and telecommunications policy
Xavier, Patrick; Ypsilanti, Dimitri - In: Regulation and the evolution of the global …, (pp. 83-106). 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003996328
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The welfare effects of mobile internet access : evidence from Roam-Like-At-Home
Quinn, Martin; Matos, Miguel Godinho de; Peukert, Christian - 2022
We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-Like-At-Home regulation, which drastically re-duced the price of accessing … impact of the regulation on different user segments. We estimate that around half of the gains stem from a reduction in … deadweight loss, i.e., new users accessing the mobile internet. We further show that the impact of the regulation varies with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012888496
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The impact of regulation and competition on the adoption of fibre-based broadband services : recent evidence from the European Union member states
Briglauer, Wolfgang - 2013 - This draft: July 2013
states for the years from 2004 to 2012. The results show that the more effective previous broadband access regulation is, the …-linear manner. It appears that the approach of strict cost-based access regulation embedded in the EU regulatory framework is at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209283
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Investment in broadband infrastructure under local deregulation : evidence from the UK broadband market
Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - 2013
This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752995
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The impact of alternative public policies on the deployment of new communications infrastructure : a survey
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Frübing, Stefan; Vogelsang, Ingo - 2015
, deregulatory policies including soft regulation are the dominant policy in “black” areas, where several independent infrastructure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462525
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The impact of network competition in the mobile industry
Houpis, George; Rodriguez, Jose Maria; Ovington, Thomas; … - 2014
In 2000, there were as many countries served by a single mobile network as by network competition. Today, only 30 countries, representing less than 3% of the world’s population, are served by a single network. There has been considerable discussion about the optimal number of network operators...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011445481