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Enhancing Competition in the Postal Sector : Can We Do Away with Sector-Specific Regulation?

Geradin, Damien - 2007

. First, sector-specific regulation can be used to address market failures, such as, for instance, the presence of bottlenecks … of this paper will be on ex ante regulation. There is indeed considerable debate regarding the regulatory framework …-handed approach to regulation. Pursuant to this view, the forthcoming postal directive should only provide for minimal regulatory …

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Downstream Price-Cap Regulation and Upstream Market Power

Reitzes, James D. - 2005

service) is subject to regulation. In these industries, regulators are confronted with the potential exercise of market power … by the upstream affiliate when choosing the optimal form of downstream regulation. This paper finds that downstream … regulation in the form of price caps can eliminate the exercise of market power by the regulated firm's upstream affiliate. With …

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Dynamic Network Interconnection Under Consumer Switching Costs

Lopez, Angel Luis - 2007

Previous research has argued that telecommunications networks under nonlinear pricing cannot use reciprocal access charges as an instrument of collusion as long as the market is mature and there is either full participation or an exogenous participation rate. This paper shows that (even...

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Efficiency Claims in EC Competition Law and Sector-Specific Regulation

Geradin, Damien - 2004

-specific regulation …

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The Economics of Mobile Telephone Regulation

Haucap, Justus - 2015

shows that these problems do not automatically imply that sector specific regulation is warranted. The same hold for the … question of regulated mobile number portability. Instead, an ex post introduction of sector specific regulation can be regarded … specific regulation of mobile telephone markets. The social welfare loss that would arise from such regulations are estimated …

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Railways Reform and Electricity Reform in Russia, and the Role of the Ministry for Antimonopoly Policy

Pittman, Russell W. - 2003

The Russian Federation is in the process of making major structural changes to its railway and electricity sectors. Both sectors will be at least partly vertically disintegrated, with the aim of creating competition in the "upstream" sector while maintaining state ownership and control of the...

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Financial and Regulatory Assessment of Mobile Network Sharing as a Trigger of Cost Efficient 5G Rollout in CEE

Földes, Gábor - 2022

Telecommunication sector faces to parallel investments into both fiber and 5G, however due to monetization challenges, return on investments often lag behind normal profit expectations. Co-investment, like mobile network sharing can promote cost efficiency, however cooperation raises regulatory...

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Exporting Telecommunications Regulation : The U.S.-Japan Negotiations on Interconnection Pricing

Rohlfs, Jeffrey H.; Sidak, J. Gregory - 2009

services as a vehicle for exporting American principles of telecommunications regulation to other nations. The United States …

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Network Access Pricing and Deregulation

Sidak, J. Gregory; Spulber, Daniel F. - 2009

The paper addresses the question of pricing access to the network facilities of an incumbent firm after deregulation. Network access pricing continues to be regulated in such industries as telecommunications, railroads, electric power and natural gas. We emphasize that access prices should be...

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How Does the Experience of U.S. Telecommunications Regulation Inform the Forced Sharing of Intellectual Property Rights under Global Competition Law?

Sidak, J. Gregory - 2012

royalties. The experience of telecommunications regulation in the United States, from the AT&T divestiture in the early 1980s to …

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