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In the 1980s and '90s many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities, such as gas, telephones, and highways--with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and improve the quality of essential services. But subsequent debacles including the...
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Monopoly as a Contracting Problem -- 2. The Choice of Regulatory Strategy …: Electricity in the Americas -- II Contract versus Discretionary Regulation -- 7. The Evolution of Concession Contracts: Municipal …-Cap Regulation: The British Water Industry -- III Vertical Unbundling and Regulation -- 10. The Trade-off in Unbundling: Competition …
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regulated over the top (OTT) services. The regulation of aggregators and platforms is achieving greater attention. Leading …, alongside privacy, and enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), supported by a network of national supervisory …
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, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focusses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New … specific view of NIE at industrial organization, antitrust and regulation, discusses three current issues -- the European …
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analysis of recent EU and American case law with a simple economic model of multi-agency regulation and its effects on …
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The paper focuses on the cost characteristics of Internet technology and on the question whether there are monopolistic bottlenecks in Internet services which justify regulatory intervention into the market. The analysis is prompted by a discussion which followed the MCI and Worldcom merger in...
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Policy variation across countries on the use of mandatory vertical separation and statutory monopoly allows me to … vertical separation and monopoly harm those consumers that were precisely supposed to help: the downstream users of … international telephone service and the number of fixed lines in service, while statutory monopoly reduces the amount of fixed lines …
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The effects of mergers on the media marketplace have historically failed to live up to dire predictions. Mergers are often a response to technological upheaval and turbulence in the media industry and firms should be allowed to experiment with such alternative business models with the intent on...
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