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Regulatory reform efforts in a broad range of industries have resulted in increased importance of competitive forces as a means to allocate resources and improve economic efficiency. A number of indicators suggest that such forces have been stronger in the United States than in most other OECD...
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This paper examines how government regulation in developing countries affects the form of corruption between business … cross-country telecom regulation dataset collected by Wallsten et al. (2004), finding that (1) strong regulatory substance … (the content of regulation) and regulatory governance reduce corruption; (2) competition and privatization reduces …
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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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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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We develop models of bilateral oligopoly with two-way traffic exchanges to study the impact of competition and government regulatory policies on the international telephone markets. When carriers in each country are required to act collectively in setting a uniform settlement rate for inbound...
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forms of informal forces, which may translate into different implications for competition regulation. Based on extensive …
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telecommunications and strive to avoid repeating them. Regulation of telecommunications in the United States has been embodied in a …
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findings and their policy implications, particularly regarding competition and regulation in digital markets. These … contributions can inform policies, regulation, and enforcement choices in digital markets that involve services used daily by …
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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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