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Regulatory Quality and Performance in EU Network Industries : Evidence on Telecommunications, Gas and Electricity

Ugur, Mehmet - 2012

This article provides empirical evidence on ex ante and ex post indicators of regulatory quality and the relationship between those indicators and market performance in liberalised EU-15 network industries. We report a low level of regulatory independence and competence, a high level of...

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Secession and the Regulatory State – Telecommunications in Scotland and the Rest of the United Kingdom

Sutherland, Ewan - 2012

In the autumn of 2014 the residents of Scotland, but not other parts of the UK, will vote on whether to leave the UK to become a separate state, with a positive vote leading to an independent parliament being elected in 2016. It would remain within the EU and in compliance with its acquis...

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Deregulation vs. Reregulation of Telecommunications : A Clash of Regulatory Paradigms

Yoo, Christopher S. - 2012

narrowing regulation to cover only those portions of industry that remained natural monopolies and deregulating those portions … intervention in Europe has prompted a debate over whether the U.S. should begin to reregulate. This article reviews how regulation … has forced the consumers and providers to bear the costs associated with rate regulation, prevented them from benefitting …

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Telecommunications Deregulation and Motives for Mergers

Okoeguale, Kevin - 2013

This paper is an event study analysis of alternative theories on the motives behind the cluster of merger following the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The evidence that mergers after telecommunications deregulation generate positive announcement abnormal returns to the...

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Essential Facility Doctrine in Brazilian Telecommunications Sector

Batista de Moura Ziebarth, José Antonio; Pinto, … - 2010

The telecommunications system went through a huge transformation during the 1990’s going from a constitutional based state monopoly to a private competitive structure, which required the creation of an independent regulatory body, ANATEL. This essay analyzes the consequences of this...

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Anti-Competitive Practice Triggered by Pro-Competitive Regulation : An Outline of Margin Squeeze in the Liberalized European Telecoms Sector, in the Light of the Deutsche Telekom D...

Anand, Aarti - 2010

Liberalization in the telecoms sector in the EU, launched in the late 1980s, implied inter alia an added obligation on the vertically integrated incumbent operator to grant potential entrants wholesale access to the natural monopoly elements of its network. There could thus be seen post...

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On the Assessment of Regulators' Efficiency : An Application to European Telecommunications

Lupi, Paolo; Manenti, Fabio M.; Sciala, Antonio; Varin, … - 2009

This paper offers a methodology to assess the internal productive efficiency of National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs) based on the performances of regulated markets, measured in terms of the degree of market efficiency (either static or dynamic). The estimation procedure is based on a Data...

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Telecommunication Reforms in Mexico : Chemotherapy to Cure a Benign Tumor

Ten Kate, Adriaan - 2015

The reforms of telecommunication regulation in Mexico, adopted recently, are inspired by a mistaken diagnosis of the … state of affairs in the industry. Moreover, they introduce and reinforce a type of regulation that has proved little …

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The Effects of Liberalizing Price Controls on Local Telephone Service : An Empirical Analysis

Eisenach, Jeffrey A. - 2012

prices and on the specific characteristics of price regulation in 95 cities. Our analysis demonstrates that the removal of …

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The Effects of Market Liberalization and Privatization on Chinese Telecommunications

Zheng, Shilin - 2013

The Chinese telecommunications sector is undergoing fundamental changes as it moves towards liberalization. This paper examines how liberalization and privatization have affected the performance of Chinese telecommunications industry. We identify greater liberalization with increases competition...

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