This paper provides evidence on the migration from an “old” technology to a “new” technology, taking into account the impact that regulatory interventions on the old one might have on the incentives to invest and adopt the new one. This analysis has been applied to a sample of EU27...

Abstract: Die Arbeit zeigt auf Grundlage einer ökonomischen Analyse, dass es für das volkswirtschaftliche Effizienzziel vorteilhaft und damit regulatorisch geboten ist, einen diskriminierungsfreien Teilleistungszugang für Dritte im Briefbereich zu realisieren, und auf welchen Stufen dieser...

We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider's (CP) investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With limited capacity, as in mobile networks, prioritized delivery services are...

There can be no doubt that the FANG companies – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – have transformed society since their emergence. Like all social transformations, the changes wrought by their services have had ripple effects that are both positive and negative. On...