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Network Neutrality on the Internet : A Two-Sided Market Analysis

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - 2012

We discuss network neutrality regulation of the Internet in the context of a two-sided market model. Platforms sell … regulation (requiring zero fees to content providers): there exist parameter ranges for which network neutrality regulation … content providers. However, for other parameter values, network neutrality regulation can decrease total surplus. Extending …

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Product Market Regulation and Wage Premia in Europe and North-America : An Empirical Investigation

Jean, Sébastien; Nicoletti, Giuseppe - 2002

worker (age, sex, education and type of contract) in 12 European and North-American countries. The effects of regulation on … these wage premia are estimated by panel data regression techniques. We find that product market regulation restricting …

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Bilateral Market Structures and Regulatory Policies in International Telephone Markets

Ju, Heng; Tan, Guofu - 2016

We develop models of bilateral oligopoly with traffic exchanges to study the competition and regulatory policies in the international telephone markets. Under the requirement of uniform settlement rates, the proportional return rule (PRR) inflates the rates and hence neutralizes PRR's effect on...

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Mobile Call Termination : A Tale of Two-Sided Markets

Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2007

Mobile telephony is described as a two-sided market where customers are seen as senders and receivers of communications that are mutually beneficial both to callers and receivers. This has implications in terms of market definition and market power. The economics of mobile call termination is...

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Effects of Regulatory Policy on Market Structure and Performance in OECD Mobile Markets

Sung, Nakil - 2013

Competition is emerging in OECD Member State mobile telephony markets, albeit somewhat unevenly and at a slower rate. The study addresses the relationship between market structure and performance, and examines the impact of regulatory policy on competition in these markets. A structural model is...

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Designing a Market Structure When Firms Compete for the Right to Serve the Market

Mougeot, Michel; Naegelen, Florence - 2005

In many industries, a regulator designs an auction to select ex-ante the firms that compete ex-post on the product market. This paper considers the optimal market structure when firms incur sunk costs before entering the market and when the government is not able to regulate firms in the market....

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Complementarity Problems in Restructured Natural Gas Markets

Gabriel, Steven; Smeers, Yves - 2005

related to regulation of access to the network and existence of market power with different types of agents. Equilibrium …

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Drug Pricing in a Regulated Market

Capri, Stefano; Levaggi, Rosella - 2004

In this article we analyse the problem of determining the price for new drugs in a market where a stringent budget constraint on public expenditure exists and we suggest an innovative methodology to set their prices. The market is characterised by asymmetry of information and a high proportion...

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Vertical Mergers and Competition with a Regulated Bottleneck Monopoly

Galetovic, Alexander; Sanhueza, Ricardo - 2004

Consider a bottleneck monopoly whose access charge is regulated above marginal cost and provides access to an oligopoly of downstream firms. Should the monopolist be allowed to vertically integrate into the downstream market? For the general run of oligopolistic market structures, we show that a...

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The Market Structure of Broadband Telecommunications

Faulhaber, Gerald R.; Hogendorn, Christiaan - 2013

all such 'infrastructure' networks have been subject to government regulation. Two reasons advanced for this market …

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