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We investigate cooperative investment for the deployment of a new infrastructure, and how it interacts with access obligations and demand uncertainty. Co-investment increases total coverage only if service differentiation and/or cost savings from joint investment, in particular due to high...
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who are most central in a network according to "diffusion centrality", which nests other standard centrality measures … diffusion central (not just those with many friends). Moreover, these nominees are more central in the network than traditional …
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vertically integrated network monopoly into a common infrastructure component and competing operating components. We implement …
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We use the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 to show that personal relationships which individuals maintain for non-economic reasons can be an important determinant of regional economic growth. We show that West German households who have social ties to East Germany in 1989 experience a persistent...
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Probabilistic measures of a priori voting power are useful tools to asses actors' influence on collective decision-making either for the purpose of designing a voting organ or to model particular policy cases. This paper makes an attempt to reduce a dynamic voting process into a cooperative...
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There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in … international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by … building trust and substituting for the difficulty of enforcing contracts internationally. The networks we are interested in …
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The deregulation of the telecommunications industry has resulted in a variety of industry structures which have been created in the hope of increasing competition. One example is the licensing of cellular telephone services in the United States. In the face of scarce radio spectrum, the Federal...
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Using a new data set of the telecommunications sector on privatization (1981-98 for 167 countries) and competition policies (1990-98 for roughly 50 countries), this Paper investigates the political economy determinants of privatization and liberalization in the telecommunications sector....
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A few recent contributions have claimed that in high-tech industries—where innovation is often cumulative and products include many components which are protected by patents in the hands of many different patent holders—the cost of obtaining all necessary licenses is too high. Some have even...
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depends on the interaction between the quality of the two networks, there is another serious problem, namely that no network … network of better quality is more expensive but may give an important edge to an operator when competing against a rival. We … network has an impact on all calls initiated by own customers (destined both on-net and off-net), we obtain a result of ‘tacit …
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