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Capital investment and employment in the information sector

Randolph Beard, T.; Ford, George S.; Kim, Hyeongwoo - In: Telecommunications Policy 38 (2014) 4, pp. 371-382

Estimation of the employment effects of changes in capital investment is a standard tool in public policy debates. Typically, such predictions are based on employment multipliers derived from Input–Output analysis. In this paper, we measure the employment effects of changes in capital...

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Access regulation and geographic deployment of a new generation infrastructure

Flacher, David; Jennequin, Hugues - In: Telecommunications Policy 38 (2014) 8, pp. 741-759

telecommunications sector. The model considers two potentially coexisting and partially competing technologies (the “old generation …

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Dynamic performance analysis of U.S. wireline telecommunication companies

Moreno, Plácido; Lozano, Sebastián; Gutiérrez, Ester - In: Telecommunications Policy 37 (2013) 6, pp. 469-482

concern to researchers and experts alike. With respect to the US wireline telecommunications sector, recent changes in … by the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Although Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has become a methodology commonly used in … many efficiency assessment applications, in the telecommunications context there is a need to implement an approach that …

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The interplay of regulation and other drivers of NGN deployment: A real-world perspective

Hrovatin, Nevenka; Švigelj, Matej - In: Telecommunications Policy 37 (2013) 10, pp. 836-848

This paper contributes to the current, lively debate on which factors induce or hinder the deployment of next generation networks (NGNs), where regulatory design plays the key role. As a country with one of the highest levels of fibre deployment, intense infrastructural competition in urban...

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Chinese telecommunications on the threshold of convergence: Contexts, possibilities, and limitations of forging a domestic demand-based growth model

Hong, Yu; Bar, François; An, Zheng - In: Telecommunications Policy 36 (2012) 10, pp. 914-928

Chinese competencies in telecommunications manufacturing—through the creation and leveraging of domestic demand. Some progress …

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Independence and the regulatory state—Telecommunications in Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom

Sutherland, Ewan - In: Telecommunications Policy 37 (2013) 11, pp. 1046-1059

have to be addressed in preparing for and creating a new system of governance for telecommunications markets on that tight …

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The welfare effects of mobile termination rate regulation in asymmetric oligopolies: The case of Spain

Hurkens, Sjaak; López, Ángel L. - In: Telecommunications Policy 36 (2012) 5, pp. 369-381

This paper examines the effects of mobile termination rate regulation in asymmetric oligopolies. It extends existing models of asymmetric duopoly and symmetric oligopoly where consumer expectations about market shares are passive. First, demand and product differentiation parameters are...

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Access regulation, entry and investments in telecommunications

Manenti, Fabio M.; Scialà, Antonio - In: Telecommunications Policy 37 (2013) 6, pp. 450-468

This paper presents a model of competition between an incumbent and an entrant firm in telecommunications. The entrant …

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Using the Hicks formula to evaluate an estimate of the elasticity of derived demand for toll-free numbers

Parsons, Steve G. - In: Telecommunications Policy 38 (2014) 2, pp. 210-215

Duffy-Deno & Parsons D-D & P (2012) estimated the coefficient for the price elasticity of demand for toll-free numbers (TFNs) at between −0.04 and −0.05. Here, the Hicks formula for derived demand is used to check the range of likely demand elasticity for TFNs given the special...

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Toll-free numbers: Demand, property rights, and public policy

Duffy-Deno, Kevin T.; Parsons, Steve G. - In: Telecommunications Policy 36 (2012) 4, pp. 324-334

The demand for Toll Free Numbers (TFNs) languished from 2000 to 2008; however recent growth in demand caused the FCC to open a new toll-free code (855) with the possibility of new code openings in the next three years. The analysis here indicates the demand for TFNs is highly inelastic (the...

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