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Dobrinsky, Rumen - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2013

Summary The paper undertakes an empirical analytical assessment of some of the determinants of economic growth in the EU during the past decade, with a specific focus on the Central and Eastern European (CEE) members of the EU. The methodology is based on a combination of different statistical...

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Economic Convergence and Structural Change: the Role of Transition and EU Accession

Dobrinsky, Rumen; Havlik, Peter - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014

Summary This paper analyses the speed and patterns of economic convergence in the new EU Member States of Central and Eastern Europe during transition and the first years of EU membership. After a brief discussion of measurement and data issues, the paper provides stylised facts on growth and...

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Agglomeration, Spatial Interaction and Convergence in the EU

Bräuninger, Michael; Niebuhr, Annekatrin - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005

We investigate the convergence process among EU regions between 1980-2002 taking into account the effects of spatial heterogeneity and spatial spillover effects. The spatial regimes model allows for different steady-state growth paths. In contrast to previous analyses, the regimes in this paper...

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Explaining Telecoms and Electricity Internationalization in the European Union: A Political Economy Perspective

Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Revuelta, Julio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

-looking incumbents in telecommunications and electricity rapidly transformed themselves into some of the world’s leading Multinationals …

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What Explains Aggregate Telecom Investments? Evidence from an EU-OECD Panel

Friesenbichler, Klaus - 2019

This paper analyzes the determinants of aggregate per capita investments into the telecom sector. We provide results of panel econometric estimates for EU and OECD countries covering the period from 2005 to 2013. The findings show a positive effect of infrastructure-based competition between...

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“Broadband prices in the European Union: competition and commercial strategies”

Calzada, Joan; Martínez, Fernando - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2013

This paper analyses the determinants of broadband Internet access prices in a group of 15 EU countries between 2008 and 2011. Using a rich panel dataset of broadband plans, we show the positive effect of downstream speed on prices, and report that cable and fibre-to-the-home technologies are...

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Broadband prices in the European Union: Competition and commercial strategies

Calzada, Joan; Martínez-Santos, Fernando - In: Information Economics and Policy 27 (2014) C, pp. 24-38

This paper analyses the determinants of broadband Internet access prices in a group of 15 EU countries between 2008 and 2011. Using a rich panel data set of broadband plans, we find a positive effect of downstream speed on prices, and that the price per Mbps of cable modem and fibre technologies...

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Broadband prices in the European Union: Competition and commercial strategies

Calzada, Joan; Martínez, Fernando - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012

This paper analyzes the factors that determine the prices of Interne broadband access in a group of 15 EU countries in the period 2008-2011. Our econometric model shows the effect of several technical characteristics of the operator's offers: while the downstream speed has a positive impact in...

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Access regulation and investment in the next generation networks : a ranking of regulatory regimes

Nitsche, Rainer; Wiethaus, Lars - 2009

consumer welfare. The model consists of an investment stage with uncertain returns and subsequent quantity competition. The … access price is a function of investment costs and the regulatory regime. A regime with fully distributed costs or a … holiday, respectively. Risk-sharing benefits consumers as it combines relatively high ex-ante investment incentives with …

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Political stability, regulation and investment in the African mobile markets : submitted for 25th European Regional Conference of the International Telecommunication Society, Bruss...

Moshi, Goodiel; Mitomo, Hitoshi - 2014

investment in telecommunications, a framework was developed to understand the factors that determine investments in telecom … cost. The results show that investments in the telecommunications industry are positively dependent on liberalization that … cost of investing in a country are important factors for investments allocation in mobile telecommunications industry among …

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