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Bismut, Sophie - 2006

In recent years, the European telecommunications market has witnessed major developments, with rapid expansion in access to telecommunications networks and a surge in the number of available services and applications. While many factors have contributed to the transformation of the...

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Markets Susceptible to ex ante Regulation : Methodology and Commission Recommendation

STUMPF, Ulrich - 2006

to ex ante regulation and those that are subject to competition law alone. The paper lays out the methodology for … identifying relevant markets that may be considered for ex ante regulation. It also provides a summary of the relevant markets … that should be susceptible to ex ante regulation based on an analysis of conditions likely to prevail in a ‘representative …

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The proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile: Are there unexhausted scale economies in U.S. mobile telephony?

Li, Yan; Pittman, Russell - 2012

From the beginning, the debate on the likely results of the proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA by AT&T focused more on the claims of the parties that “immense” merger efficiencies would overwhelm any apparent losses of competition than on the presence or absence of those losses, and the...

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Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and Regulation in Internet Search

Pollock, Rufus - 2008

Internet search (or perhaps more accurately `web-search') has grown exponentially over the last decade at an even more rapid rate than the Internet itself. Starting from nothing in the 1990s, today search is a multi-billion dollar business. Search engine providers such as Google and Yahoo! have...

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Is Google the next Microsoft? Competition, Welfare and Regulation in Internet Search

Pollock, Rufus - 2008

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e-Communications: Investment and the Regulatory Framework

Jones, Siôn; Jones, Pau - 2006

The EU regulatory framework for e-communications was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council in 2002, and became applicable from 2003. It has three primary objectives: (1) to promote competition; (2) to develop the single market; and (3) to promote citizens' rights. The European...

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Innovation, Investment and Regulation: What are the Options for Regulation in the Near Future?

Flacher, David; Jennequin, Hugues; Lorenzi, Jean-Hervé - 2006

on existing literature, we argue that ex ante regulation could represent a danger for the long-term development of the … infrastructures. We also argue that ex ante regulation is distorting investment itself: incremental investment is privileged as … opposed to radical investment. In this context, we identify three possible options for regulation in the near future: 1 …

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Explaining the Housing Bubble

Levitin, Adam; Wachter, Susan - 2012

There is little consensus as to the cause of the housing bubble that precipitated the financial crisis of 2008. Numerous explanations exist: misguided monetary policy; a global savings surplus; government policies encouraging affordable homeownership; irrational consumer expectations of rising...

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Compulsory or Voluntary Pre-merger Notification? Theory and Some Evidence

Chongwoo, Choe; Shekhar, Chander - 2009

We compare the prevailing system of compulsory pre-merger notification with the Australian system of voluntary pre-merger notification. It is shown that, for a non-trivial set of parameter values, a perfect Bayesian equilibrium exists in mixed strategies in which the regulator investigates...

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The effectiveness of competition policy: an econometric assessment in developed and developing countries

Samà, Danilo - 2013

The ultimate objective of the present paper is to empirically investigate the effectiveness of competition policy in developed and developing countries. Although its importance is continuously increasing, the effectiveness of competition policy still seems to lack the attention that it would...

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