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A Brief History of Media Merger Hysteria : From AOL-Time Warner to Comcast-NBC
Thierer, Adam D. - 2014
The effects of mergers on the media marketplace have historically failed to live up to dire predictions. Mergers are often a response to technological upheaval and turbulence in the media industry and firms should be allowed to experiment with such alternative business models with the intent on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070497
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Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Firm Size
Chambers, Dustin - 2020
We investigate whether regulatory growth disproportionately burdens small businesses relative to large businesses. Using panel data from RegData 3.0 and exploiting variation across industries over time, we empirically estimate the relationship between regulatory growth and growth in the number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012852412
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The Impact of Regulations and Institutional Quality on Entrepreneurship
Chambers, Dustin - 2018
This paper examines the impact of start-up regulations and institutional quality on the level of new business activity in a panel of 119 countries between 2001 and 2012. We find robust evidence that new business creation is significantly lower in countries with excessive barriers to entry, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012932206
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Access regulation and geographic deployment of a new generation infrastructure
Flacher, David; Jennequin, Hugues - 2012
supposed to be high on the ADSL market because of already existing regulation. We assume that two types of operators are … access to them (OPf2). In our model, the level of investment is decided at stage 1 and the access price is decided at stage 2 …. At stage 3, OPf1 and OPf2 compete à la Cournot. This common framework allows us to show that the "regulation defining …
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Reinventing Competition in the EU Telecom Sector NGNs & the Macro-Environment
Tompras, Theodossis G. - 2010
The present paper (presented in ITU's & INA 2009 workshop on “Migration to Next Generation Regulatory Environment”) tries to identify the effects of the concentration experienced so far in the EU telecom sector and offers a high level strategy proposition for alternative revenue sources in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149305
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Deutsche Telekom and Pacific Bell v. Linkline : Does Competition Law Have a Place in Regulated Industries?
Holterman, Martin - 2014
analysis of recent EU and American case law with a simple economic model of multi-agency regulation and its effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067899
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Product Market Regulation and Macroeconomic Performance : A Review of Cross Country Evidence
Schiantarelli, Fabio - 2021
of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output … country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318222
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Regulatory Approaches to NGNs : An International Comparison
Marcus, J. Scott; Elixmann, Dieter - 2008
The emergence of Next Generation Networks (NGNs) raises profound challenges for regulators everywhere. Different regulatory authorities have approached these problems in strikingly different ways, depending in part on the overall regulatory milieu in which they operate, and in part on the nature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217936
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International Mobile Roaming : Competition, Economics and Regulation
Sutherland, Ewan - 2013
International mobile roaming has been subject to market interventions since the 1990s, first requiring operators to be provide customers with roaming, then trying to limit the increasing prices, that were seemingly immune to the effects of competition. The European Commission, in trying to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094663
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A Functional Coefficient Model View of the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle
Herwartz, Helmut - 2009
What does the saving-investment (SI) relation really measure and how should the SI relation be measured? These are two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159487