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Miettinen, Topi; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2012

Government or company decisions on whom to hire are mostly delegated to politicians, public sector officials or human resources and procurement managers. Due to anti-corruption laws, agents cannot sell contracts or positions that they are delegated to decide upon. Even if bribing is ruled out,...

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Directed Generosity and Network Formation: Network Dimension Matters

D'Exelle, Ben; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2010

We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network … generosity with a sequence of dictator games conducted in the field. We find that networks of different dimensions differ … substantially in density, clustering, and centrality. When relating generosity to networks we observe that social distance only …

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Two-Sided Markets and Electronic Intermediaries

Jullien, Bruno - CESifo - 2004

The object of this paper is to discuss on-line intermediation from the perspective of two-sided markets. It builds a simple model of the intermediation activity when trading partners are involved in a commercial relationship and uses it to illustrate some of the results that emerge in the...

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Capital Structure and Regulation in U.S. Local Telephony: An Exploratory Econometric Study

Resende, Marcelo - CESifo - 2009

The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the regulated firm, A key aspect of the referred relationship pertains a leverage effect according to which debt could be increased as a response to previous physical capital investment...

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Will the U.S. and EU Telecommunications Policies Converge? A Survey

Vogelsang, Ingo - CESifo - 2014

Currently, U.S. and EU telecommunications policies differ in many respects. For example, wholesale access to local loops is largely deregulated in the U.S. but continues to be regulated in the EU. Or, the U.S. has an elaborate universal service policy with a set of universal service funds and...

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The Endgame of Telecommunications Policy? A Survey

Vogelsang, Ingo - CESifo - 2013

Will telecommunications policy in the form of industry-specific regulation go away? A literature review of the five policy areas (1) termination monopoly, (2) local bottleneck access, (3) net neutrality, (4) spectrum management, and (5) universal service suggests that in some of them a move to...

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Investment in Broadband Infrastructure Under Local Deregulation: Evidence from the U.K. Broadband Market

Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - CESifo - 2013

This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of the wholesale broadband access market. Using a panel dataset covering all 5,598 exchange areas in the United Kingdom, we exploit regional differences in deregulation following a...

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Strategic Complexities in the Combinatorial Clock Auction

Knapek, Stephan; Wambach, Achim - CESifo - 2012

Recently, the combinatorial clock auction has become more and more common in the auctioning of telecommunication licenses. Although the auction design is complex, the promise is that bidding becomes simple - truthtelling is ‘close to optimal’. We show that this claim is too strong. The...

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Broadband Internet: An Information Superhighway to Sex Crime?

Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tarjei; Leuven, Edwin; … - CESifo - 2012

Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points in 2000–2008, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental...

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Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Growth

Czernich, Nina; Falck, Oliver; Kretschmer, Tobias; … - CESifo - 2009

diffusion model where pre-existing voice-telephony and cable-TV networks predict maximum broadband penetration. We find that a …

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