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attempt to equalize competition among mobile wireless competitors. In this Bulletin, we review the Justice Department … and lower quality. Third, we show that case law holds that government intervention, whether by the FCC or the DOJ, should … not be directed at equalizing competition among competitors, but the DOJ's recommendation is plainly aimed at doing so. We …
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We present a Cournot model that compares the critical threshold of collusion in Duopoly and Oligopoly Markets where the actors are private, mixed or public. We assume that the incentive critical threshold for collusion depends on the interconnection fees. The different threshold values...
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We introduce a flexible model of telecommunications network competition with non-uniform calling patterns, which … previous predictions, jointly profit-maximizing access charges are set above termination cost in order to dampen competition …
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competition processes and information systems rather than based on the traditional measurement of market shares and concentration … promotion of competition through the determination of proper incentives for the deployment of dynamically efficient network …
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boutique fuels and power, and allowing energy firms to restrict output and raise prices without fear of competition …. And it offers recommendations for how competition and energy regulators can work together to ensure that energy standards … do not undercut the aims of competition policies …
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-sharing effect that may relax competition for users, resulting in lower quality of content. More surprisingly, user surplus may also … decrease as the quality effect may overwhelm the positive effect of accessing more content. In the media sector, newspapers … anti-competitive effect while preserving the diversity effect. When there is competition among third parties, interplatform …
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We analyze the incentives of internet service providers (ISPs) to break net neutrality by excluding internet applications competing with their own products, a typical example being the exclusion of VoIP applications by telecom companies offering internet and voice services. Exclusion is not a...
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This paper investigates the impacts of the current roaming rules on domestic competition and welfare. We consider a …
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Central features of today's electronic communications markets are complementarities between the different layers of the value chain, substitutability between some applications, network effects in the provision of content and services, two-sided business models that partly involve indirect...
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economic issues of competition on dominant platforms, using Amazon as a case study. The paper examines the role of dominant … recommendations to adapt competition law to the challenges of the digital economy …
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