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We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider's (CP) investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With limited capacity, as in mobile networks, prioritized delivery services are...
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further-reaching political calls for regulation. While Google is currently in the focus of the discussion, the next candidate … economic perspective and, consequently, do not warrant regulation or other drastic interventions (like breaking the company up … Amazon and the major publishers in the e-book market require competition policy action. The standard antitrust instruments …
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time, the commission cap is still welfare improving--whether combined with a toll or not. This confirms the effectiveness …
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The spread of distributed ledger technology (DLT) in finance could help to improve the efficiency and quality of supervision. This paper makes the case for embedded supervision, ie a regulatory framework that provides for compliance in tokenised markets to be automatically monitored by reading...
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We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider's (CP) investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With limited capacity, as in mobile networks, prioritized delivery services are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046060
stablecoin issuers raises the challenge of how to apply technology-neutral regulation so that similar risks are subject to the …
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to keep up the sustained growth of productivity. Reforms that enhance competition in product markets are among those that … capacity and waste of public money. A more level playing field would bring about efficiency-enhancing competition by private … competition is developing in some segments. Digitalisation is a promising candidate to lift China’s long-term growth potential …
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industry. The general expectation is that more competition will lead to lower prices and higher volumes, and hence higher … welfare. This paper indicates that this might not happen for at least two reasons. First, energy markets, including the market … for natural gas, are characterized by imperfect competition and increasing costs to develop new energy sources. As a …
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The economic crisis in the early 1990s prompted action on reforming the Swedish welfare state and its institutions …
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The very concept of 'domestic regulation' in telecommunications comes from multilateral commitments of international … relations, where regulation in telecom services, directly affect commercial and bilateral relationships of partner countries …. Under WTO commitments Pakistan has opened up its telecom sector under De-Regulation Policy of 2003 and now the privatization …
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