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The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling … within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the … revenues. To evaluate the welfare effects of the regulation, we develop a framework that includes consumer surplus, retail and …
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We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators’ average revenues per user (ARPU) and …-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile operator’s revenues per user, while it had no impact on tariffs during … the latest phase of the regulation …
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We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly … mobile termination rate regulation. We find that regulation benefits consumers significantly more than entry does, and that …
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In many situations governments have sector-specific tax and regulation policies at their disposal to influence the …
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We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators' average revenues per user (ARPU) and …-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile operator's revenues per user, while it had no impact on tariffs during … the latest phase of the regulation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012657941
In many situations governments have sector-specific tax and regulation policies at their disposal to influence the …
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We analyse optimal environmental policies in a market that is vertically differentiated in terms of the energy efficiency of products. Considering energy taxes, subsidies to firms for investment in more eco-friendly products, and product standards, we are particularly interested in how...
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commentators have focused on the anticompetitive potential of envelopment, and some have argued for regulation of platforms because … of that concern. These calls for regulation are not supported by robust formal analysis or comprehensive empirical …
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nondiscrimination regulation that forces the ISP to provide an equal quality upgrade to both CPs, however, can reduce the ISP …
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In this paper, we use a unique dataset on switching between mobile handsets in a sample of about 8,623 subscribers using tariffs without handset subsidies from a single mobile operator on a monthly basis between July 2011 and December 2014. We estimate a discrete choice model in which we account...
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