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Set it and Forget it? Market Power and the Consequences of Premature Deregulation in Telecommunications Markets

Ford, George S.; Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2014

.C. Circuit recognized over twenty years ago: Complex regulation must still be credible regulation and any failure by the FCC to …

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Impact of competition and regulation on prices of mobile services : evidence from France

Grzybowski, Lukasz; Nicolle, Ambre; Zulehner, Christine - 2017

In this paper, we assess the impact of competition and regulation on prices of mobile services in France. We estimate …-adjusted prices to a set of competition and regulation variables and find that the launch of 4G networks by mobile operators was the … introduced to pre-empt the entry of low cost competitor declined at the time of entry. Moreover, we find that regulation, which …

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All-pay competition with captive consumers

Foucart, Renaud; Friedrichsen, Jana - 2021

We study a game in which two firms compete in quality to serve a market consisting of consumers with different initial consideration sets. If both firms invest below a certain threshold, they only compete for those consumers already aware of their existence. Above this threshold, a firm is...

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Antitrust failures : the internet giants

Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018

Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – the FANG companies – have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. Soaring consumer access to information, news, social networks, and entertainment has been stimulated by the ever-more ubiquitous and falling...

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Antitrust for internet gianst

Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James H. - 2018

There can be no doubt that the FANG companies – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – have transformed society since their emergence. Like all social transformations, the changes wrought by their services have had ripple effects that are both positive and negative. On...

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Competition in the German Broadband Access Market

Vanberg, Margit A. - 2002

, there is a need for unbundling regulation to foster competition. Improvements to the current open-network regulation …

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Privatisation Experiences in France

Berne, Michel; Pogorel, Gérard - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 1, pp. 33-40

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Fibre-optic Networks: On Investment, Regulation and Competition

Heinacher, Peter; Preissl, Brigitte - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 3, pp. 22-28

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Add-on pricing, naive consumers, and the hidden welfare costs of education

Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - 2011

Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...

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Pharmaceutical regulation, mandatory substitution, and generic competition

Birg, Laura - 2015

This paper studies the effect of two regulatory instruments - a price cap and a reference price system - a mandatory substitution rule, and the combination of both on generic competition in a Salop-type model with an off-patent brand-name drug and n differentiated generic versions. The price cap...

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