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Network Neutrality and Network Management Regulation : Quality of Service, Price Discrimination, and Exclusive Contracts

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - 2015

We compare four approaches to network neutrality and network management regulation in a two-sided market model: (i) no …; (iii) variations in Quality of Service and price discrimination but no exclusive contracts; and (iv) no regulation: the …

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The Unsustainable Costs of Partial Deregulation

MacAvoy, Paul W. - 2008

Three decade ago, federal policymakers - Republicans and Democrats - embarked on a general strategy of deregulation in the electricity, gas delivery, and telecommunications industries. The strategy called for restructuring to separate production from the transmission and distribution, followed...

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Network Neutrality on the Internet : A Two-Sided Market Analysis

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - 2012

We discuss network neutrality regulation of the Internet in the context of a two-sided market model. Platforms sell … regulation (requiring zero fees to content providers): there exist parameter ranges for which network neutrality regulation … increases the total surplus compared to the fully private optimum at which the monopoly platform imposes positive fees on …

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Mobile Call Termination : A Tale of Two-Sided Markets

Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2007

Mobile telephony is described as a two-sided market where customers are seen as senders and receivers of communications that are mutually beneficial both to callers and receivers. This has implications in terms of market definition and market power. The economics of mobile call termination is...

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Redesigning automated market power mitigation in electricity markets

Adelowo, Jacqueline; Bohland, Moritz - 2022

Electricity markets are prone to the abuse of market power. Several US markets employ algorithms to monitor and mitigate market power abuse in real time. The performance of automated mitigation procedures is contingent on precise estimates of firms' marginal production costs. Currently, marginal...

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Network Neutrality on the Internet : A Two-Sided Market Analysis

Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - 2012

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Implementing Efficient Market Structure

Grimm, Veronika; Riedel, Frank; Wolfstetter, Elmar G. - 2005

This article studies the design of optimal mechanisms to regulate entry in natural oligopoly markets, assuming the regulator is unable to control the behavior of firms once they are in the market. We adapt the Clarke-Groves mechanism, characterize the optimal mechanism that maximizes the...

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The gas chain : influence of its specificities on the liberalisation process

Swartenbroekx, Carine - Nationale Bank van België/Banque national de Belqique (BNB) - 2007

Like other network industries, the European gas supply industry has been liberalised, along the lines of what has been done in the United Kingdom and the United States, by opening up to competition the upstream and downstream segments of essential transmission infrastructure. The aim of this...

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Bank Organization, Market Structure and Risk Taking: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Commercial Banks

Goetz, Martin - Networks Financial Institute, Scott College of Business - 2011

This paper examines (1) the change in commercial banks’ risk taking as states in the United States removed restrictions on bank branching within state borders and (2) the channels through which the removal of these restrictions affect bank risk taking. I find that, after the liberalization of...

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Vertical Differentiation and Airline Alliances : The Effect of Antitrust Immunity

Fageda, Xavier - 2019

This paper explores, both theoretically and empirically, the impact of granting antitrust immunity (ATI) to airline alliances in a novel and realistic framework characterized by vertically-differentiated air services. Our theoretical model suggests that non-ATI alliances produce an up-market...

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