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Disruption of tradition network industries and the emergence of innovative physical operator platforms provide challenging governance problems of contractual relationships among different actors involved. The problem solution competence of operator platforms (two-sided, multi-sided) is the...
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The paper investigates political uncertainty as a source of regulatory risk. It shows that political parties have incentives to reduce regulatory risk actively: Mutually beneficial pre-electoral agreements that reduce regulatory risk always exist and fully eliminate it when political divergence...
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increase off-net traffic from the investor's network but also from competitors' networks. Regulation changes the effect on …. Testing for a common regulation-investment effect provides evidence that the negative investment externality is not due to … regulation. …
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competition are affected by diverse regulation imposed investment regimes and the nature of product market competition. We analyze … competitors, is in charge of the investment. With imperfect regulation of the industry, we show that investment outcomes vary …
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This paper discusses the relevant cost standard for the economic replicability test for Next-Generation Access (NGA) networks, described in the Recommendation on Costing and Non-discrimination adopted by the European Commission. We demonstrate that a cost standard that implies fully fixed and...
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The development of the broadband market is a key aspect of the economic and social growth of a country. However, despite the importance and the development of broadband market in Portugal in recent years, especially with the explosion of the number of mobile broadband accesses, the studies for...
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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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The paper assesses the scope for competition inducing infrastructure regulation in furthering the diffusion of …
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ensure a level playing-field for innovative services in smart grids and consider implications for research and regulation. …
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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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