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Third Party Access and Refusal to Deal : How Sector Regulation and Competition Law Meet Each Other
Diathesopoulos, Michael D. - 2010
In this paper, we will analyse further the issue of concurrence between competition and sector rules and the relation between parallel concepts within the two different legal frameworks. We will firstly examine Third Party Access in relation to essential facilities doctrine and refusal of access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134857
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Investment in ICT : determinants and economic implications
Fabritz, Nadine - 2015
This study was prepared by Nadine Fabritz while she was working at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in October...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742893
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The Failure of Northern Rock: A multi-dimensional Case Study
Congdon, Tim; Goodhart, Charles A.E.; Eisenbeis, Robert A. - 2009
In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011689937
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The failure of Northern Rock : a multi-dimensional case study
Bruni, Franco (ed.); Llewellyn, David T. (ed.) - 2009
In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011705347
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The Failure of Northern Rock - A Multidimensional Case Study
Eisenbeis, Robert Allen; Taylor, Michael William; … - SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum
In August 2007 the United Kingdom experienced its first bank run in over 140 years. Although Northern Rock was not a particularly large bank (it was at the time ranked 7th in terms of assets) it was nevertheless a significant retail bank and a substantial mortgage lender. In fact, ten years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004982519
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Did Separating Openreach from British Telecom Benefit Consumers?
Sidak, J. Gregory - 2014
In 2005, Ofcom, then telecommunications regulator in the United Kingdom, implemented functional separation of British Telecom plc (BT), separating its wholesale and retail services. BT established a division within the company, Openreach, to provide equal access to its local access network and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045955
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Mobile Call Termination
Armstrong, Mark - 2014
Motivated by recent UK experience, we study the problem of mobile call termination. This is an intriguing policy story, in which regulation has been imposed on what appears to be a competitive industry. We introduce a framework which integrates two existing literatures: one analyzing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709299
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Natural or Unnatural Monopolies in UK Telecommunications?
Correa, Lisa - 2003
This paper analyses whether scale economies exists in the UK telecommunications industry. The approach employed differs from other UK studies in that panel data for a range of companies is used. This increases the number of observations and thus allows potentially for more robust tests for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075200
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Experience of Privatisation, Regulation and Competition : Lessons for Governments
Davies, Lesley - 2006
This policy paper offers a synthesis of research on privatisation and its impacts on the utilities sector in different … sequencing privatisation together with competition, regulation and industry restructuring; the role and importance of an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733357
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The Railways, the Market and the Government
Hibbs, John - 2013
The debate on rail privatisation often seems to focus on very narrow issues. Those on both sides of the argument seem … to be able to employ a mass of statistics to prove their point. Proponents of privatisation suggest, with some … costs since privatisation.The authors of this monograph examine privatisation in the context of the long history of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012711691