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Regulation and Diplomacy in Telecommunications
Haroon, Yousaf - 2005
The very concept of 'domestic regulation' in telecommunications comes from multilateral commitments of international … relations, where regulation in telecom services, directly affect commercial and bilateral relationships of partner countries …. Under WTO commitments Pakistan has opened up its telecom sector under De-Regulation Policy of 2003 and now the privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014027984
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Regulatory and Competition Law Remedies in the Postal Sector
Geradin, Damien; Henry, David - 2004
-specific regulation and competition law. In this paper, we explore how these two approaches have been used to facilitate the arrival of …European Community law has played a pivotal role in opening to competition economic sectors previously under the … to have a detrimental effect on consumer welfare. In order to prevent the postal incumbents using their market power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073491
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Beyond Westphalia : Competitive Legalization in Emerging Transnational Regulatory Systems
Meidinger, Errol - 2006
This paper analyzes several emerging transnational regulatory systems that engage, but are not centered on state legal systems. Driven primarily by civil society organizations, the new regulatory systems use conventional technical standard setting and certification techniques to establish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057004
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Regulation and Competition Issues in Broadcasting in the Light of Convergence
Biggar, Darryl R. - 1999
This document (of 351 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable on regulation and competition issues … broadcasting, approaches to regulation of broadcasting and highlighting the features of the industry which give rise to competition … member countries describing in detail the regulatory regime for broadcasting and some of the competition policy issues which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014181881
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Privatization, competition, and best practices for telecom sector reform
Katz, Raul L.; Kende, Michael; Rossotto, Carlo; Jung, Juan - 2023
introduction of competition and improved quality of regulations, which together condition the speed of technology migration, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346219
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Beyond the Doomsday Economics of 'Proof-of-Work' in Cryptocurrencies
Auer, Raphael - 2019
This paper discusses the economics of how Bitcoin achieves data immutability, and thus payment finality, via costly computations, ie "proof-of-work". Further, it explores what the future might hold for cryptocurrencies modelled on this type of consensus algorithm. The conclusions are, first,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893259
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The Economics of Television and Online Video Markets
Crawford, Gregory S. - 2015
Television is the dominant entertainment medium for hundreds of millions. This chapter surveys the economic forces that determine the production and consumption of this content. It presents recent trends in television and online video markets, both in the US and internationally, and describes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020057
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An Index of Global Economic Policy Uncertainty
Davis, Steven J. - 2016
Building on Baker, Bloom and Davis (2016), I construct a monthly index of Global Economic Policy Uncertainty (GEPU) from January 1997. The GEPU Index is a GDP-weighted average of national EPU indices for 16 countries that account for two-thirds of global output. Each national EPU index reflects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981172
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Causality between Economic Policy Uncertainty Across Countries : Evidence from Linear and Nonlinear Tests
Ajmi, Ahdi Noomen - 2015
Following the 2007-2009 global recession, economic policy uncertainty and its effect on economic recovery has become an issue of interest in academic, media as well as policy-making circles (Baker et al., 2013). Given this backdrop, we investigate causality between economic policy uncertainty in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029078
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Economic uncertainty before and during the COVID-19 pandemic
Altig, Dave; Baker, Scott Brent; Barrero, Jose Maria; … - 2020
We consider several economic uncertainty indicators for the United States and the UK before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: implied stock market volatility, newspaper-based economic policy uncertainty, twitter chatter about economic uncertainty, subjective uncertainty about future business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251406