of regulation on R&D investment. Nearing competition has a dampening effect on R&D spending, but once the market and … could not find any evidence that (ownership) unbundling and incentive regulation affect R&D expenditures of the utilities. …

’s Product Market Regulation indicator for Costa Rica shows that there is ample room to improve regulations. Costa Rica …

Regulation and competition policy are two alternative modalities by which the state intervenes in the market. In order … varieties of market failures and identify those for which regulation is best address (cooperation failures such as The Fishing … regulation in jurisdictions where institutions are weak. The reasons are: information intensity and asymmetry being greater with …

coordination. This paper examines three persistent sources of flawed coordination: 1) a regulation versus unbundling dilemma, 2 …

roaming services. The investigation and analysis find that there are currently low levels of alignment in regulation between … operator costs is asymmetric, making regulation challenging, as this affects the extent to which the relationship between costs …-the-top services. Attention therefore needs to be paid to the harmonization of regulation regarding Internet-related services. Here …

shows that these problems do not automatically imply that sector specific regulation is warranted. The same hold for the … specific regulation of mobile telephone markets. The social welfare loss that would arise from such regulations are estimated …