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This paper aims to investigate the main determinants of Telecommunications demand for European countries (EU). For this reason, a panel data set is used consisting of 19 EU countries over the period 1991-2010 capturing the years before and after the liberalization process. The goal is to clarify...
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We re-examine the literature on mobile termination in the presence of network externalities. Externalities arise when firms discriminate between on- and off-net calls or when subscription demand is elastic. This literature predicts that profit decreases and consumer surplus increases in...
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The present paper (presented in ITU's & INA 2009 workshop on “Migration to Next Generation Regulatory Environment”) tries to identify the effects of the concentration experienced so far in the EU telecom sector and offers a high level strategy proposition for alternative revenue sources in...
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) monopoly thesis. Recently, however, a trend towards deregulation of such industries has been observed. This trend started with … the economies of scale have disappeared as a result of emerging new technologies. The successful deregulation in … substantial. Moreover, in addition to the deregulation process, the electricity sector is also subject to other changes such as …
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The European Commission has formally recognised that adequate provision of basic household services, including energy, communications, water and transport, is key to ensuring equity, social cohesion and solidarity. Yet little research has been done on the impact of the reform of these services...
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higher productivity and increasing macroeconomic growth rates, important deregulation and privatization measures were …
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outdoing Western countries in terms of speed and radicality. Deregulation and enterprization have dominated the process in all … question for the first time in Eastern Europe. We start to address the two relevant policy issues: modes of regulation, and …
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This paper examines liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in a number of Asian countries and the role of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in this process. It begins by explaining the working of the GATS as a mechanism for multilateral liberalization efforts. It...
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-based competition, by fine-tuning access regulation, working as intended? What can one learn from the Dutch experience? As scale …
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, privatization, and the (re)structuring of regulation. Second, it attempts to estimate the extent to which these policies have …
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