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...

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...

States and their representatives, national governments, play a key role in national telecommunication markets. As lawmakers, they determine the playing field of the agents in the markets and the decision powers of national regulators. Simultaneously, they are involved in appointing presidential...

We explore the separation of powers between the legislative and the executive branch of government as a way of overcoming the dynamic consistency problem of regulatory policy towards investment. We model the industry as a regulated duopoly. The incumbent is a vertically integrated firm that owns...

This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a repeating ARGARCH model, I compare the effect of three types of regulation which are categorized based on the addressed subject, i.e. cross-market, country-specific and company-specific...

This paper presents a review of empirical methods used to assess the behavioral, economic, and political outcomes of Internet and social media usage. Instead of merely surveying the various impacts of the Internet, we examine the methods adopted to identify these impacts. We describe two main...

Myanmar's recent socioeconomic and political reforms have signaled a readiness to reintegrate into the world economy. To leapfrog the economy and accelerate growth, the country should take advantage of digital technology. This paper assesses Myanmar's information and communication technology...

The importance of connectivity is growing across the world as the need for access to information and communication technologies is becoming more important for economic development. This paper presents the concept of the connectivity frontier as the expected achievable level of commercially...

Beim letzten Nationalen IT-Gipfel der Bundesregierung am 18./19.11.2015 haben die Kanzlerin und der Wirtschaftsminister einhellig hervorgehoben, dass Deutschland hinsichtlich des Digitalisierungsgrades von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft im internationalen Vergleich allenfalls mittelmäßig...

Die Alternative 'Ex-Ante-Regulierung versus Ex-Post-Aufsicht' ist der Kern der ordnungspolitischen Kontroversen der letzten Jahre im Bereich der Netzindustrien - insbesondere in der Telekommunikation und der Energiewirtschaft. Die grundlegenden Reformen des ordnungspolitischen Rahmens haben in...