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This paper argues that transforming the postal business model goes hand in hand with a transformation in the definition of universal service obligation. Whilst postal operators need to fully embrace the unique competitive space created by electronic substitution, at the intersection between the...
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The low cost of communication made possible by the Internet has led to ruinous competition in news markets. It has also … cost of participating in news markets that was eliminated by the Internet. A solution to competition for advertising … led to stiff competition from social media companies in the advertising distribution markets in which newspapers also …
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Third party access to postal networks can be made subject to a range of access conditions. While the pricing of postal network access has received much research attention, the effects of access on quality of service have received less. Using data on international postal services in a large panel...
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infrastructure services is an international tendency. Emerging competition has been seen as an essential element in this process. On …
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European Community law has played a pivotal role in opening to competition economic sectors previously under the … competition. In this paper, we will focus on the first category of market failures, i.e. the bottlenecks that may prevent … competition in the postal sector. There are two regulatory instruments to impose remedies in network industries, sector …
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20% and 30%. Regression analysis attributes efficiency gains to increased competition, institutional reforms, less …
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correlation in products' qualities, an increase in the degree of competition may translate into a lower accuracy of news reports …; iii) A sufficiently high degree of competition in the market for news drives out commercial media bias …
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correlation in products' qualities, an increase in the degree of competition may translate into a lower accuracy of news reports …; iii) A sufficiently high degree of competition in the market for news drives out commercial media bias. …
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In this paper we analyzed the strategic competition between incumbent postal operators and market entrants in …. Our results extend the literature on competition in liberalized mail markets by combining pricing and positioning …
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