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This paper examines the causes and effects of mobile number portability (MNP) and provides a survey of its implementation in Europe. We first examine the competitive effects and the costs of introducing MNP. Next, we discuss how to charge for MNP. We argue that a price cap regime starting from...
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This paper analyses the institutional framework for pharmacies in Germany and competition in that sector, which is … characterized by significant competition deficits. Based on our diagnosis and findings the advantages and disadvantages of two …
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This paper analyses the institutional framework for pharmacies in Germany and competition in that sector, which is … characterized by significant competition deficits. Based on our diagnosis and findings the advantages and disadvantages of two …
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This paper analyzes how competition works in mobile telecommuncations markets and, bases on this analysis, we discuss … understanding competition in mobile telephony, is the fact that building a mobile telephone network requires highly specific … interconnection and fixed-to-mobile termination may give rise to competition problems. As we argue in this paper, closer analysis …
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competition issues at the infrastructure level, namely margin or price squeezing of incumbent operators vis-à-vis new ISPs and …
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Digitisation processes have – often through disruptive innovations – injected additional competition in many markets … valuable and (allegedly) also so powerful that competition authorities, legal scholars, economists and others social scientists … power in digital markets. A number of competition authority inquiries and reports and Government commissioned policy studies …
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patterns for a particular market (diapers) to investigate the inter-format competition (supermarkets vs. discounters vs … sold at drugstores and discounters. This result is important given controversies among competition authorities, firms and …
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