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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%

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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...

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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...

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Empirical evidence on the relationship between mobile termination rates and firms' profits

Andersson, Kjetil; Foros, Øystein; Hansen, Bjørn - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 118 (2016) 1, pp. 129-149

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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...

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Fiber to the people : the development of the ultra-broadband network in Italy

Cambini, Carlo; Polo, Michele; Sassano, Antonio - In: Politica economica, journal of economic policy 32 (2016) 2, pp. 179-209

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Regulation of Latin American's Information & Communications Technology (ICT) Sector : an empirical analysis

Alleman, James H. (contributor); … - International Telecommunications Society - 2014

In the mid-1980s a movement towards privatization and de-regulation of the telecommunications sector was begun. The … empirically evaluates the impact of regulation in selected Latin American countries. The results are only suggestive, but not … conclusive - that weaker regulation supports investment in the ICT sector due to higher prices for the service. …

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Network utilities in the U.S. : sector reforms without privatization

Vogelsang, Ingo - 2004

U.S. network industry reforms led other countries in the past, but have recently run into difficulties in specific areas. In particular, the U.S. telecommunications sector was hit by a deep crisis and electricity reforms suffered under the California disaster. Part of the explanation for these...

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The interplay between regulation and competitions : the case of universal service obligations

Hörnig, Steffen; Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2002

Regulators have long been aware of the social aspects of communication. In the past, regulated monopolists have provided Universal Service Obligations, typically funded via a system of cross-subsidies. In this paper, we first review the rationale for imposing Universal Service Obligations, based...

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How to fill the digital gap? : the (limited) role of regulation

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Cambini, Carlo; Melani, Sauro - 2016

This paper provides evidence on the migration from an “old” technology to a “new” technology, taking into account the impact that regulatory interventions on the old one might have on the incentives to invest and adopt the new one. This analysis has been applied to a sample of EU27...

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