literature suggest a negative effect of (price) competition on investments in mobile networks. To the best of our knowledge this … auctions may alter competition in the mobile market. …

regulatory barriers to competition in non-manufacturing sectors on all industries, through intermediate inputs. The paper … regulation data are integrated with the annual energy, transport and communication regulation (ETCR) indicator and what sector …

this concentration have for consumers, search engines, and advertisers? Does search require regulation and if so in what …

and welfare are compared under welfare maximisation, network monopoly and network monopoly with competition over one part … of the network. Given that inducing actual competition may bring disbenefits such as cost duplication and co …

, competition and the reform of state regulation are key themes of donor aid programmes, notably those of the World Bank. This paper … provides an econometric assessment of the effects of privatisation, competition and regulation on the performance of the … restructuring to introduce private capital and increase competition. This has been accompanied by the introduction of new regulatory …

market to be competitive in Europe in absence of ex ante regulation of wholesale network access. This is done by two methods … European operators. Both methods arrive to the same conclusions: a) network economics allow competition in most geographic … the degree of potential competition. …

This document (of 351 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable on regulation and competition issues … broadcasting, approaches to regulation of broadcasting and highlighting the features of the industry which give rise to competition … member countries describing in detail the regulatory regime for broadcasting and some of the competition policy issues which …

In a companion note (Antitrust vs. Sector-specific Regulation in Telecom: What Works Best?), we argued that while the … and institutions as instruments of economic regulation, some sector-specific rules and specialized implementing … interconnection. In the present note, we look in more details at the regulation of interconnection drawing from the experience of New …

-specific regulation and competition law. In this paper, we explore how these two approaches have been used to facilitate the arrival of …European Community law has played a pivotal role in opening to competition economic sectors previously under the … to have a detrimental effect on consumer welfare. In order to prevent the postal incumbents using their market power …