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Economic analysis takes as its defining performance benchmark the pursuit of increases in welfare (efficiency). Competition is merely one of a variety of means of achieving the efficiency end, especially in industries where the underlying economic circumstances predispose them towards greatest...
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One of the consequences of major regulatory reform of the telecommunications sector from the end of the 1970s … former national telecommunications monopolies to expand abroad. From the 1990s, a number of these firms, particularly those … the regulatory framework within which telecommunications incumbents evolved over the long-term shaped their subsequent …
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This paper analyzes one-way access and, in particular, local loop unbundling (LLU) in telecommunications markets. At … fixed telecommunications. In this paper we explore situations of one-way access in which the entrant, the firm without the …
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There is a significant degree of regulatory fragmentation in telecommunications to the extent that at least a … telecommunications or industry-specific agency (ISA) and the antitrust agency (AA) coincide in enforcing rules in this business. In this … telecommunications regulation corresponding to a crosscountry sample (26 countries of the OECD area). I find that the determining factors …
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One of the most contentious debates in modern telecommunications policy regards whether or not a regulatory mandated …
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all play significant roles in the shaping of important regulatory decisions in the telecommunications industry …
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for telecommunications services. This paper will examine the consequences of convergence with particular attention to the … impact on semantic, telecommunications and trade classifications resulting when content and conduit blend together as occurs …
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services; it analyzes the resulting trade barriers. The basic structure of international telecommunications depends on the …
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We analyse network competition in a market with international calls. National regulatory agencies (NRAs) have incentives to set regulated termination rates above marginal cost to extract rent from international call termination. International network ownership and deregulation are alternatives...
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