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when new pricing technologies and strategies disrupt markets. It argues for pricing regulation as a feasible solution to …

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More than words : a global analysis of the socio-economic impact of Rich Interaction Applications (RIAs) : 28th ITS Europe, Passau, Germany

Arnold, René; Hildebrandt, Christian; Tas, Serpil; … - 2017

Applications such as iMessage, KakaoTalk, LINE, Signal, Skype, Snapchat, Threema, Viber, WhatsApp and WeChat have become an increasingly popular means of personal and business interaction. Surprisingly little academic effort has gone into understanding the nature and origin of these...

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Lifestyle Risks : Conceptualizing an Emerging Category of Research

Planzer, Simon; Alemanno, Alberto - 2013

the readers of the European Journal of Risk Regulation to this fascinating emerging area of risk studies. We shall attempt …

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Process Choice

Coglianese, Cary - 2012

Regulation scholars have long searched for the best tools to use to achieve public policy goals, generating an …, Regulation by Litigation, Andrew Morriss, Bruce Yandle, and Andrew Dorchak make a significant contribution by empirically and … 'regulation by litigation.' This review considers three central questions about regulation by litigation. First, how if at all …

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A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing : Termination-Based Price Discrimination with Elastic Subscription Demand

Hurkens, Sjaak; Jeon, Doh-Shin - 2014

We study how access pricing affects network competition when consumers' subscription demand is elastic and networks compete with non-linear prices and can use termination-based price discrimination. In the case of annexed per minute termination charge, our model generalizes the results of Gans...

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A Most Egregious Act? The Impact on Consumers of Usage-Based Pricing

Ford, George S. - 2012

” services and, as such, new price regulation of broadband services may be warranted by the Federal Communications Commission to …

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Mobile Termination and Consumer Expectations Under the Receiver-Pays Regime

Hurkens, Sjaak - 2014

We analyze how termination charges a ect retail prices when taking into account that receivers derive some utility from a call and when rms may charge consumers for receiving calls. A novel feature of our paper is that we consider passive self-ful lling expectations and do not allow for negative...

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Challenges to the Conventional Wisdom About Mergers and Consumer Welfare in a Converging Internet Marketplace

Frieden, Rob - 2020

and economic doctrine, antitrust enforcement agencies may fail to identify the risk of harm to consumers and competition …

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Mobile Termination, Network Externalities, and Consumer Expectations

Hurkens, Sjaak; López, Angel L. - 2010

We re-examine the literature on mobile termination in the presence of network externalities. Externalities arise when firms discriminate between on- and off-net calls or when subscription demand is elastic. This literature predicts that profit decreases and consumer surplus increases in...

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Net Neutrality and Consumer Welfare

Becker, Gary S.; Carlton, Dennis W.; Sider, Hal - 2013

. We also evaluate claims by net neutrality proponents that regulation is justified by the existence of externalities … claimed by net neutrality proponents and do not provide a compelling rationale for regulation. We conclude that antitrust …

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