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The StoNED age: The Departure Into a New Era of Efficiency Analysis? A MC Study Comparing StoNED and the "Oldies" (SFA and DEA)
Andor, Mark; Hesse, Frederik - 2013
Based on the seminal paper of Farrell (1957), researchers have developed several methods for measuring e fficiency. Nowadays, the most prominent representatives are nonparametric data envelopment analysis (DEA) and parametric stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), both introduced in the late 1970s....
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Deregulating fixed voice services? Empirical evidence from the European Union
Šaric, Amela; Lange, Mirjam R. J. - 2014
This paper deals with the relationship between the traditional fixed-line, mobile and Voice over IP telephony in the EU.We estimate the supply and demand for fixed-line telephony using data on 25 EU member states for the 2006:Q2 - 2011:Q4 period. Employing instrumental variable approach, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397811
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Political stability, regulation and investment in the African mobile markets
Moshi, Goodiel; Mitomo, Hitoshi - 2014
This study attempted to analyze the effect of regulation and political stability in allocation of mobile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397856
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Deregulating fixed voice services? Empirical evidence from the European Union
Lange, Mirjam R. J.; Šaric, Amela - 2014
Commission's current decision to lift the ex ante regulation on the fixed-line telephony market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010471576
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Productivity in the Electricity Retail Market: Does Ownership Matter? A Structural Production Function Approach for Germany
Stiel, Caroline; Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria - 2015
This paper examines firm-level productivity for German electricity retailers using a structural production function approach. The sector was subject to fundamental changes in market structure after retail liberalization in 1998. Competition was supposed to increase productivity and reduce retail...
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DO SPILLOVERS MATTER WHEN ESTIMATING PRIVATE RETURNS TO R&D?
Strauß, Hubert; Eberhardt, Markus; Helmers, Christian - 2010
A large body of literature on the estimation of private returns to R&D adopts the Griliches knowledge production framework, ignoring the impact omitted spillover effects may have on consistent estimation. A separate body of literature is primarily interested in the presence and magnitude of...
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Fixed to VoIP Interconnection: Regulation with Asymmetric Termination Costs
Stühmeier, Torben - 2010
as the voice of internet protocol (VoIP) telephony. Regulation with a supply-side asymmetry has rarely been addressed …. Considering both a supply-side and a demand- side asymmetry, the present model analyzes the effects different regulation regimes …. Regulation may have adverse effects on subscribers, market shares, and profits. If providers can discriminate between on-net and …
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Procompetitive infrastructure sector regulation and diffusion of innovation: The case of broadband networks
Gruber, Harald; Koutroumpis, Pantelis - 2011
The paper assesses the scope for competition inducing infrastructure regulation in furthering the diffusion of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307275
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Unlocking the potential of the smart metering technology: How can regulation level the playing-field for new services in smart grids?
Kranz, Johann; Picot, Arnold; Roemer, Benedikt - 2011
ensure a level playing-field for innovative services in smart grids and consider implications for research and regulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307297
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Regulation of network industries in the European Union and in Central and Eastern Europe
Major, Iván; Kiss, Károly M. - 2011
Cost-based pricing has dominated the regulatory regime of network industries - and first of all, the regulation of the … opening and liberalization in these industries; it abolished industry regulation in several segments of the market of network … industries. Now it applies so-called cost-based pricing in areas where regulation is still in place. CEE countries now use the …
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