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What explains aggregate telecom investments? : evidence from an EU-OECD panel

Friesenbichler, Klaus S. - 2019

This paper analyses the determinants of aggregate per-capita investments into the telecom sector. We provide results of panel econometric estimates for EU and OECD countries covering the period from 2005 to 2013. The findings show a positive effect of infrastructure-based competition between...

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Regulating big tech: from competition policy to sector regulation?

Budzinski, Oliver; Mendelsohn, Juliane - 2021

undermine the intended stringency of the regulation and its overall chances of making digital markets systemically more …

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Regulating big tech: from competition policy to sector regulation?

Budzinski, Oliver; Mendelsohn, Juliane - 2022 - Updated October 2022 with the final DMA

gatekeepers, the “tipping” of markets and the rise of further gatekeepers is not guaranteed by the proposed regulation, this in …

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Amazon Self-preferencing in the Shadow of the Digital Markets Act

Waldfogel, Joel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Regulators around the world are discussing, or taking action to limit, self-preferencing by large platforms. This paper explores Amazon's search rankings of its own products as the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) was coming into effect. Using data on over 8 million Amazon search...

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Merger policy in digital markets : an ex-post assessment

Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Calvano, Emilio; … - 2019

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first discuss the most crucial features of digital markets such as network effects, multi-sidedness, big data, and rapid innovation that create important challenges for competition...

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Breaking the news? : should digital platforms be required to fund news publishers?

Lesh, Matthew - 2023

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Incentive regulation of electricity and gas networks in the UK : from RIIO-1 to RIIO-2

Jamasb, Tooraj - 2020

regulator Ofgem replaced its approach to energy network price control and incentive regulation with a Revenue … regulation model that be revised by the regulator. The lessons of experience from the RIIO models are also relevant for … regulators in other countries and can inform their design of incentive regulation of energy networks. …

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Is Amazon the next Google?

Budzinski, Oliver; Köhler, Karoline H. - 2015

further-reaching political calls for regulation. While Google is currently in the focus of the discussion, the next candidate … economic perspective and, consequently, do not warrant regulation or other drastic interventions (like breaking the company up …

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Competition policy reform in Europe and Germany - institutional change in the light of digitization

Budzinski, Oliver; Stöhr, Annika - 2018

The ubiquitous process of digitization changes economic competition on markets in several ways and leads to the emergence of new business models. The increasing roles of digital platforms as well as data-driven markets represent two relevant examples. These developments challenge competition...

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Asymmetric content moderation in search markets : the case of adult websites

Madio, Leonardo; Mitchell, Matthew F.; Quinn, Martin; … - 2025

We study the competitive impact of content moderation by a dominant online platform. We exploit an exogenous shock that led the largest adult content platform to remove all non-verified content, eliminating 80% of its video library. Using a difference-in-differences approach and leveraging on...

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