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Termination Rates, Roaming). It argues that current regulation is led by political aims and less by economic theory. National …This article deals with current developments concerning the regulation of telecommunication in Europe (e. g. Mobile …
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risk management through contracting, and designing markets and regulation to ensure effective and sustainable competition … and gas. The Paper argues that there is unfinished business in the areas of regulation, restructuring, encouraging proper …
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We develop a simple model of banking regulation with two policy instruments: minimum capital requirements and … regulation. Therefore, countries are better off by harmonising regulation on an international standard. …
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Gegenstand der vorliegenden Studie ist die optimale Regulierung des Betriebs von Netzwerken, die die Charakteristika … sinnvoll. Für eine optimale Regulierung des Verhaltens des jeweiligen Netzwerkbetreibers ist dabei entscheidend, welche … Regulierung betrachtet werden, werden hier die oft vernachlässigten Effekte auf die Qualität des Netzwerks in den Vordergrund …
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We review the different market monitoring and market-power mitigation policies that arise in world electricity markets. Regulators for electricity markets apparently respond to differences in underlying market structure and design features when choosing between ex-ante (that is, rule-based)...
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A current topic in Germany and the EU is the review of railway legislation regarding access and price regulation as … whether unbundling requirements should be extended. Secondly, it discusses a possible new design of price regulation … principles. Before analysing these proposals, this paper describes the specific requirements for regulation of the railway sector …
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The liberalization and regulation of telecommunications markets in Germany is called, despite some adversity as a great … of the regulation was for almost one and a half decades the non-discriminatory access to the copper-based infrastructure … of the incumbent. Due to technical progress, the focus of regulation will continue to move to other areas, such as, for …
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We provide an efficiency justification for the imposition of the uniform pricing constraint in universal service obligations (USO), where USO are defined as a set of constraints imposed on firms belonging to a network industry. In addition to the uniform pricing (UP) constraint, which is an...
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The conditions and effects of government market regulations ARE The subject of discussion in this article. The first part of the study covers the discussion of the different interpretations of market failure and the consequent doubts about the application of this criterion as a condition for...
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Recent studies provide clear evidence that the quality of telecommunications infrastructure has strong impacts on economic growth. Especially in Germany there is a controversial debate how to stimulate telecommunications investment to foster the introduction of Next Generation Networks. To find...
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