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Internet of Things and the network economics of operator platforms
Knieps, Günter - 2019
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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OTT-messaging and mobile telecommunication : a joint market? : an empirical approach
Wellmann, Nicolas - 2017
OTT-messenger such as facebook, WhatsApp have gained wide popularity among mobile users while traffic of text messaging has been in strong decline in several countries. This work is the first to provide an empirical analysis how consumption of OTT-messengers affects demand for text messaging and...
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Inefficiency and regulation in credence goods markets with altruistic experts
Farukh, Razi; Kerkhof, Anna; Loebbing, Jonas - 2020
provide higher quality services to all consumers. The externality renders the market outcome inefficient. Price regulation …, price regulation should be accompanied by licensing arrangements that cap the number of experts in the market. Our theory … provides a novel rationale for the wide-spread use of price regulation and licensing in real-world markets for expert services. …
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Speeding up the internet : regulation and investment in European fiber optic Infrastructure
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Cambini, Carlo; Grajek, Michał - 2017
regulation and recently imposed fiber access regulations. Our main finding is that more stringent access regulations for both the …
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Land use regulation & retail : space constraints and total factor productivity : paper prepared for 50th ERSA Congress, Jönköping, Sweden from 19 - 23 August 2010
Cheshire, Paul C.; Hilber, Christian; Kaplanis, Ioannis - 2010 - Preliminary draft
relate that firmly to land use regulation policies. Our results suggest that TFP rises with store size and that planning …
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More than words : a global analysis of the socio-economic impact of Rich Interaction Applications (RIAs) : 28th ITS Europe, Passau, Germany
Arnold, René; Hildebrandt, Christian; Tas, Serpil; … - 2017
Applications such as iMessage, KakaoTalk, LINE, Signal, Skype, Snapchat, Threema, Viber, WhatsApp and WeChat have become an increasingly popular means of personal and business interaction. Surprisingly little academic effort has gone into understanding the nature and origin of these...
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The nature and magnitude of the effects of asymmetric regulation of mobile termination rates on the Mexican retail prices
Robles-Rovalo, Arturo; Díaz-Goti, Emiliano; … - 2018
regulation. In our example, the termination rates have been part of a vertical restriction strategy. The observed network … competition, rest on a cost-based asymmetric price regulation. The further research allows a statistical assessment of the … asymmetric price regulation implemented by the Mexican regulatory authority during January 2013 to June 2017. This paper …
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Multisided markets and platform dominance
Alleman, James H.; Baranes, Edmond; Rappoport, Paul N. - 2019
The internet giants - Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, among others - have transformed society with both positive and negative effects. The negative effects have been stark. There have been huge disruptions caused by e-commerce. More recently, subtler, but even more serious negative effects...
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Local labor market effects of FDI regulation in Indonesia
Genthner, Robert; Kis-Katos, Krisztina - 2020
Using yearly Indonesian labor market data for 2000 to 2015, we investigate the impact of a protectionist foreign direct investment (FDI) policy reform on employment and wages. The so-called negative investment list regulates FDI at the highly granular product level and has been repeatedly...
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Bork's hoax : antitrust and the internet market
Alleman, James H. - 2021
Robert Bork's Antitrust Paradox (1978) has been justification for lack of antitrust behavior for over four decades. His test essentially asks if consumers are harmed by the pricing practices of the firm in the market in which they purchase the good or service. Even if these firms are monopoly or...
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