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While Internet usage blossomed during the entire 1995 – 2001 time period, there was a large change in the nature of the high-speed Internet access business. Initially, connection, routing and content were three separate parts of high-speed Internet service. Cable companies initially teamed...
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structure, as measured by federal approval of RBOC Section 271 applications that open up markets to competition and universal …
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Quality labels are not new, but the last decade saw labeling schemes to be increasingly targeted at expert qualities – i.e. qualities involving a high degree of scientific expertise in order to be assessed. The paper takes a close look at the regulatory and institutional framework underlying...
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to competition. The implication is that it may be beneficial to define additional incentives near the end of the career …
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Commission. One aim might be to improve efficiency, another one might be to introduce competition, as a mean, precisely to … competition. The paper is organized as follows : First the various kinds of disputes are analyzed. They are presented according to … competition. …
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The aim of this paper is to focus on the emerging situation in which open source software is nowadays produced not only by individual developers but in a growing proportion by firms that hire programmers for their own objectives of development in open source or for contributing to open source...
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and outcome of the competition between a FLOSS firm and a proprietary firm. We discuss these results in the light of …
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The paper focuses on the influence of upstream competition for productivity outcomes in downstream sectors. This … imperfections in the production of intermediate goods. In this context, upstream market imperfections create barriers to competition …. Thus, lack of competition in upstream markets curbs incentives to improve productivity downstream, negatively affecting …
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current financial malfunctions, accordingly, would not result from free competition, but rather from insufficient competition … perfect competition prevails. But it is also strongly unrealistic, for it rejects public interventions even when markets … questioned the supposed virtues of competition and offered the most elaborated alternative as for thinking about the current …
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significant, indicating that gender-related variables explain why twice as many men as women self-select into competition. …
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