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In the last decade, the Department of Transportation has abandoned its previously liberal, market-oriented policies towards international airline competition. While the policies of the 1980s and 90s were designed to maximize industry competitive dynamics so that consumers could benefit from...
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The problem of a monopolist firm that supplies an essential input to other firms that compete in the final downstream market is crucial in many utility industries that use a network. When downstream firms have different degrees of efficiency, then it could be feasible to charge them different...
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externalities and network effects. It shows that the regulation of mobile termination rates based on "long-run incremental costs …
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We develop a model in which two firms from different countries compete on each other domestic market. Each firms is jointly owned by the residents and the government of its country. The extent of the government's stake in the public enterprise is endogenous and it determines the weight given the...
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infrastructures. We also argue that ex ante regulation is distorting investment itself: incremental investment is privileged as … opposed to radical investment. In this context, we identify three possible options for regulation in the near future: 1 … answer this question, the paper focuses on the problem of investment and innovation in an ex ante regulated sector. Relying …
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investment to build up its network. Assuming a skewed distribution of consumers, our model leads to an asymmetric market … structure with one firm choosing higher investments. While access regulation imposed on the dominant firm leads to lower prices …, positive welfare effects are diminished by strategic investment decisions of the firms. Within a dynamic game with indirect …
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(De)regulatory interventions frequently have unintended cross- market effects, which may or may not be desirable. We assess the effects of three policies on aggregate variables, in particular real income, from a theoretical perspective. Our results suggest that instruments acting upon wages have...
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We develop a model in which two firms from different countries compete on each other domestic market. Each firm is jointly owned by the residents and the government of its country. The extent of the government's stake in the public enterprise is endogenous and it determines the weight given to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005796029
This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; networkbased price discrimination; and call externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468563
This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; networkbased price discrimination; and call externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529327