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We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications by using a comprehensive data set covering 70+ fixed-line operators in 20 countries over 10 years. Our econometric model accommodates: different investment incentives for...
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unbundling. The theory predicts that an airlineś fares should fall when it introduces a bag fee, but that the full trip price …
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The purpose of this research is to evaluate the impact of vertical unbundling on German electric utilities. Our … supply. Overall, we have two main conclusions. First, the major step in the unbundling process is from "lean legal unbundling …" to "fat legal unbundling"; additional steps beyond that are small, both in benefits and in costs. Second, the benefits of …
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What is a good balance between competition and coordination in network industries? Network unbundling aims to promote … competition, but this has to be balanced against the downside of unbundling: firm-internal coordination falls away and must be … coordination. This paper examines three persistent sources of flawed coordination: 1) a regulation versus unbundling dilemma, 2 …
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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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That the modern state couldn't exist without taxes is something that doesn't need to be argued to society. It is also acknowledged that tax burden influences not only the budget revenues, but investments, demand and supply, prices and others. All this has direct as well as indirect influence on...
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