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We document entry and capacity expansion in US long-distance fiber-optic networks before and during the "telecom boom." We disentangle the many swaps and leases between networks in order to measure owned route miles versus route miles shared with other carriers. Entry appears much more moderate...
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This paper analyses whether scale economies exists in the UK telecommunications industry. The approach employed differs … study reveal that although the results need to be treated with some caution allowing/encouraging infrastructure competition …
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In this paper, I analyze wage trends in telecommunications during the pre-divestiture and post-divestiture period. Data …, and for different regions of the country. The impact of potential competition is estimated by analyzing wage trends for …
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In this paper we study the impact of different forms of access obligations on firms’ incentives to migrate from the legacy copper network to next generation broadband infrastructures. We analyze geographically differential access prices of copper (that depend on whether or not an alternative...
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We study the impact on consumers of privatization and liberalization in the telecommunication sector for 15 EU Countries. Policy reforms are summarized by the OECD regulatory indicators (REGREF), that consider the extent of privatization, vertical disintegration, and market entry. After...
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This study investigates the relationship between environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores and potential tendencies to manipulate the earnings of telecommunication companies. We assumed a negative relationship between ESG scores and earnings management since the companies with higher...
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reveals a fundamental difference between judges about the role of EU competition law …
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structure, competition intensity, penetration rate and the level of technical advancement which determine a target amount of …. Competition promotes the incentives to invest and increases the target amount of investment, but, at the same time, it reduces the … margin. As long as the target amount is achieved, competition has a positive impact on investment; otherwise it has a …
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I examine whether bundling of telecommunications services makes individuals less likely to switch their service …
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. Especially interesting is that networks of regulatory authorities (as BEREC in telecommunications) can play an important role in …
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