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This paper re-examines the effect of the regulatory regime on both penetration and coverage of broadband access to the internet. The framework also allows for an evaluation of different public policy measures such as subsidization of broadband demand and supply. A welfare analysis asks what the...
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Few phrases in public policy have become so overused so quickly as the information highway. Although it is unclear to many what that superhighway is or will be, this uncertainty has not prevented proposals to regulate the superhighway from being made. In this Article, we examine the economic...
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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 …
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wholesale roaming charges can be sensitive to this regulatory regime. Since introducing a fair use clause in roaming regulation …
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. Typically, new services are not subject to specific regulation, owing to the risk that this would discourage investment and … intervention to date, an equally valid response is to question the effectiveness of existing regulation. Both new entrants and … benefits for customers and reducing the need for regulation; to assess the impact of public policy on incentives to invest in …
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The paper addresses the determinants of diffusion of broadband infrastructure by looking a the US Federal States. It tries to identify in particular to what extent intra- and inter-platform competition contribute to accelerating the speed of diffusion. Panel data analysis results indicate that...
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The paper assesses the scope for competition inducing infrastructure regulation in furthering the diffusion of …
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This paper employs firm-level panel data of 57 incumbent and entrant firms for 23 European countries in the decade from 2003 to 2012. We examine the impact of service- and facility-based competition on firm-level investment as well as the strategic effects underlying infrastructure investment...
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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 …
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