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Decentralized or Centralized Control of Online Service Platforms : Who Should Set Prices?

Cachon, Gerard P; Dizdarer, Tolga; Tsoukalas, Gerry - 2021

influences the degree of competition among servers, and in turn determines both the amount of supply available and the overall … price delegation decision depends on the importance of regulating competition among the large population of servers relative …

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Ordnungspolitik in der digitalen Welt

Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich - 2017

Der vorliegende Beitrag erörtert die wichtigsten Herausforderungen, die sich durch die Digitalisierung stellen. Analysiert werden die Fragen, inwiefern die die Digitalisierung zu einer Monopolisierung von Märkten führt, wie das Kartellrecht nach der 9. GWBNovelle diese Befürchtungen...

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Cable Modems and DSL : Broadband Internet Access for Residential Customers

Hausman, Jerry A.; Sidak, J. Gregory; Singer, Hal J. - 2013

incentive to distort competition as a result of their unregulated monopoly profits from their cable operations. This asymmetric …

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Essential Facilities

Sidak, J. Gregory; Lipsky, Abbott B. - 2009

United States v. Terminal Railroad Association, the essential facilities doctrine has been applied to a wide variety of business contexts - from football stadiums to the New York Stock Exchange. However, courts have also declined to extend the doctrine to a wide variety of situations. Despite...

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The Financial Implications of the Une-Platform : A Review of the Evidence

Beard, Thomas Randolph; Ford, George S.; Klein, … - 2003

attention to long-standing complaints by the BOCs that such sales are confiscatory, and amount to "subsidized competition." This …

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Make or Buy? Unbundled Elements as Substitutes for Competitive Facilities in the Local Exchange Network

Beard, Thomas Randolph; Ford, George S. - 2004

In this paper, we estimate demand curves for unbundled loops sold by incumbent local exchange telecommunications carriers to their retail rivals. Of primary interest are the cross-price effects between unbundled loops purchased with and without unbundled switching. As expected, we find...

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Pursuing Competition in Local Telephony : The Law and Economics of Unbundling and Impairment

Beard, Thomas Randolph; Ekelund, Robert B.; Ford, George S. - 2003

This paper surveys the impairment standard of Section 251(d)(2)(B) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and its content as it has been interpreted by both the FCC and the Courts. The Congressional standard relating to unbundling clearly pointed to its impact on each CLEC's output, and relevant...

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Unbundling and Facilities-Based Entry by Clecs : Two Empirical Tests

Ford, George S.; Pelcovits, Michael - 2007

In this paper, the determinants of the provision of facilities-based lines by competitive local exchange carriers ("CLECs") are examined using data collected by the Federal Communications Commission and the entry decisions of a large, facilities-based CLEC. The multiple regression models are...

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Broadband Adoption in the United States : An Empirical Analysis

Aron, Debra J.; Burnstein, David E. - 2014

relevant to this debate. In so doing, we examine the influence of availability, competition, and demographics on the adoption …) competition on broadband penetration, relative to the effect of simple broadband availability. The econometric results indicate … that after controlling for the demand and cost influences on adoption, intermodal competition drives increased penetration …

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The Sharing Economy and Consumer Protection Regulation : The Case for Policy Change

Koopman, Christopher; Mitchell, Matthew D.; Thierer, Adam D. - 2018

dramatically — or when new technology or competition alleviates the need for regulation — then public policy should evolve and …

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