Launching and stimulating competition in telecommunications markets is an important policy goal. It contains two … elements: to encourage entry and to make competition effective such that consumers benefit. The first one requires that … difficult to achieve at the same time. In this paper, we consider price regulation in the retail and wholesale market and answer …

Launching and stimulating competition in telecommunications markets is an important policy goal. It contains two … elements: to encourage entry and to make competition effective such that consumers benefit. The first one requires that … difficult to achieve at the same time. In this paper, we consider price regulation in the retail and wholesale market and answer …

We analyze competition between data intermediaries collecting information on consumers, which they sell to firms for … price discrimination purposes. We show that competition between data intermediaries benefits consumers by increasing … competition between firms, and by reducing the amount of consumer data collected. We argue that merger policy guidelines should …

stores and product categories, we find that more liberal entry regulation increases productivity and decreases the adjustment … incumbents obtain more benefits in markets with restrictive regulation. Generous liberalizations of entry induce net exit of …