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An Anatomy of a Cartel : The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 and the Compliance Crisis of 1934

Klein, Peter G.; Taylor, Jason E. - 2008

This paper explores the nature and causes of the cartel compliance crisis that befell the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) one year after its passage in 1933. We employ a simple game-theoretic model of the NIRA's cartel enforcement mechanism to show that the compliance crisis can largely...

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The Evolution of Innovation and the Evolution of Regulation : Emerging Tensions and Emerging Opportunities in Communications

Downes, Larry; Mayo, John W. - 2014

decision-making become increasingly counter-productive. This article proposes a more pragmatic, "results-based regulation …

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Systemic Efficiencies in Competition Law : Evidence from the ICT Industry

Stylianou, Konstantinos - 2017

This article introduces the concept of systemic efficiencies, traces its theoretical underpinnings in economics, management and technology, and applies it to recent high profile cases. Systemic efficiencies occur in large complex systems through the interaction of multiple distributed...

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The Economics of Information : from Dismal Science to Strange Tales

Downes, Larry - 2016

Information in digital form transforms from a rivalrous to a non-rivalrous good, with profoundly different and counter-intuitive economic properties. This essay reviews five key features of digital goods: renewability, universality, magnetism, friction-free transfer, and vulnerability....

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A Short Note on Brexit : Telecommunications Issues after the Referendum

Sutherland, Ewan - 2016

might lie. Withdrawal creates a number of legislative holes, with innumerable references to EU institutions and to its … the list of markets subject to ex ante regulation) would disappear, potentially requiring ‘transposition’ into domestic … institutions would require ‘beefing up’ of governmental and parliamentary capabilities. It would also require a much deeper …

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Mobile Advertising : Economics, Evolution and Policy

Evans, David S. - 2016

Consumers have shifted their consumption of online content dramatically from websites that they browse from a personal computer to apps that they use on mobile devices. Marketers have moved with the eyeballs, particularly since people use their smartphones much of the day and carry them wherever...

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Mobile Telecommunications in Africa : Issues for Business, Government & Society

Sutherland, Ewan - 2014

Mobile telecommunications has been a considerable success with consumers, yet markets are oligopolies designed by governments and by industry, with many flaws, including limited ability to regulate prices, quality of service and coverage. Markets have been partially opened to competition, with...

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Rural Broadband in Scotland – Challenges for Scotland and Lessons for Other Countries

Sutherland, Ewan; Whalley, Jason - 2013

There are many socio-economic benefits associated with the provision and use of broadband services. Arguably these are greatest for those living and working in rural areas, as broadband contributes to the ‘death of distance’. This paper focuses on the provision of broadband in rural...

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Broadband - Towards a National Plan for Scotland

Sutherland, Ewan - 2013

The development of national broadband plans has been used by many countries to join up different areas of governmental and regulatory activities and to set ambitious targets for ubiquitous access to and use of the latest fixed and wireless networks and services. For Scotland this requires...

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International Mobile Roaming in the Arab States

Sutherland, Ewan - 2013

and international issues of structures for the governance of markets and concerns about pan-Arab nationalism, ancient …

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