In a companion note (Antitrust vs. Sector-specific Regulation in Telecom: What Works Best?), we argued that while the … and institutions as instruments of economic regulation, some sector-specific rules and specialized implementing … interconnection. In the present note, we look in more details at the regulation of interconnection drawing from the experience of New …

vehicle industry, regulators should generally adopt a light-handed approach to regulation, encouraging a nationally …

shows that these problems do not automatically imply that sector specific regulation is warranted. The same hold for the … question of regulated mobile number portability. Instead, an ex post introduction of sector specific regulation can be regarded … specific regulation of mobile telephone markets. The social welfare loss that would arise from such regulations are estimated …

the citizens of its member states. The Roaming Regulation that has reduced the mobile communications costs while …

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 …

This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a … repeating AR-GARCH model, I compare the effect of three types of regulation which are categorized based on the addressed subject …, i.e. cross-market, country-specific and company-specific regulation. While standard event study approaches are a special …

This paper questions whether competition can replace sector-specific regulation of mobile telecommunications. We show …

under competition law-based sector governance (the period from 1987 to 2001) and under industry-specific regulation (2001 to …-specific regulation, however, transfers to consumers appear to have reduced, transaction costs have increased and delays are being …

telecommunications and strive to avoid repeating them. Regulation of telecommunications in the United States has been embodied in a …