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Antitrust Failures: The Internet Giants
Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011930714
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Antitrust for Internet Giants
Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944644
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Enhancing business dynamism and consumer welfare in Costa Rica with regulatory reform
González Pandiella, Alberto - 2020
Regulations of product markets serve legitimate objectives but, when ill-designed, can impose unnecessary restrictions on competition, and therefore on business dynamism, productivity and ultimately well-being. A recent update of the OECD’s Product Market Regulation indicator for Costa Rica...
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Antitrust failures : the internet giants
Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011990829
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Antitrust for internet gianst
Taschdjian, Martin; Alleman, James H. - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010582
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Competition and Market Strategies in the Swiss Fixed Telephony Market. An estimation of Swisscom’s dynamic residual demand curve.
Balmer, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
traditional “dominant firm – competitive fringe” model allowing the incumbent also more competitive conduct than that of a …. While the incumbent's conduct cannot be directly estimated using this framework, the concrete estimates show that residual … compatible with a profit maximising incumbent in the case of largely competitive conduct (conduct parameter below 0.12 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259890
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Restarting the Growth Engine in Finland
Braconier, Henrik - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Impressive productivity performance during the last decades has weakened since 2007, reflecting the 2008-09 recession but also a poor performance in important sectors, like the information and communication technology sector. Reforms to raise long term productivity growth need to be pursued....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276818
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International benchmarking of Australian telecommunications services
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
The study compares the performance of the Australian telecommunications services industry with those in other countries. Related papers submitted to this study by NECG Ltd. and Telecom New Zealand have been released with the report.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134992
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Competition, competitiveness, and enterprise policies
Dunford, Michael; Louri, Helen; Rosenstock, Manfred - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
In this chapter our aim is to examine the effects on cohesion of European Union competition and conlpetitiveness policies. More specifically, attention will be paid to three sets of measures: the rules of competition policy (Articles 85-94 of the EU Treaty); industrial competitiveness policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919772
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A new approach to measuring competition in the loan markets of the euro area
van Leuvensteijn, Michiel; Bikker, Jacob A.; van … - 2007
This paper is the first that applies a new measure of competition, the Boone indicator, to the banking industry. This approach is able to measure competition of bank market segments, such as the loan market, whereas many well-known measures of competition can consider the entire banking market...
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