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This chapter discusses the macroeconomic impact evaluation of other policies related to innovation. In particular, two examples are shown on the impact simulation of a reduction to firms' entry barriers and an increase in R&D tax credits. Alternative ways of modelling these two types of policy...
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competition among counties. The present paper highlights the situation in which the citizens of two countries have the opportunity … set the price of their services, including entrance fees or so, to maximize their profits and overtake each other. We …
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at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a decline in revenues followed. Increased retail competition eventually … be justified on the basis of a lack of competition. …
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In 2000, there were as many countries served by a single mobile network as by network competition. Today, only 30 … low coverage, inefficient duplication of costs and lack of competition. To date, the authors are not aware of such single … light on the expected performance of single wholesale networks. The key result is that countries with network competition …
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disagreement between these approaches is whether competition is a concept which is meaningful on both territorial and firm level or …Much of the current policy and scientific debate regarding territorial development focuses on territorial competition …, which is a result of the outspread of competition (the centerpiece in classical and neoclassical political economy) over …
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Network sharing agreements have become increasingly widespread in mobile telecommunications markets. They carry undeniable advantages to operators and consumers alike, but also the potential for consumer harm. Not all NSAs are created equal: the assessment of the balance of harm and benefits to...
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share of visits, Facebook and Google's HHI is "highly concentrated" at 2,471. Each has obtained de facto monopoly or …. Facebook and Google Herfindahl-Hirschman indices (HHI) are high, indicating a concentrated market or highly concentrated market … by several different definitions of their markets. Nevertheless, no serious antitrust case or legislation has addressed …
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form of price, handset or bundling based competition. In this paper we explore the impact that one such disruptive mobile … it is successful or not, inevitably focuses on the number of mobile network operators present in a market. Largely …
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Many situations in the social and economic life are characterized by rivalry and conflict between two or more competing …, conflict significantly intensifies when investments are determined democratically by voting or when a single group member (the … situations in which institutions are adopted exogenously or endogenously. Our findings thus suggest that giving people the …
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, competition is measured either by the number of competitors or by the degree of substitutability between o¤ers. Result holds for …This paper investigates the impact of technical progress on the relationship between competition an investment. Using a … model of oligopoly competition with di¤erentiated products where firms invest to reduce their marginal cost of production, I …
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