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to initiate adequate investment incentives. Using a two-equation estimation approach, a direct competition effect (more … service competition increases the supply of infrastructure) can be disentangled from an indirect effect (more service … competition increases the demand for infrastructure quality and, as a consequence, increases the supply of infrastructure). While …
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We analyze the relationship between institutional quality and firm efficiency. Using rich data on firms in the European Union between 2005 and 2012, we show that high institutional quality lowers the share of persistently inefficiently used assets. The adverse effect of low institutional quality...
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This paper advances a dynamic rationale for competitiveness policy that focuses on an economy's ability to evolve in order to achieve high real incomes along with desired qualitative changes in the socio-economic system. It highlights that the ubiquitous 'rationalities of failure,' either of...
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This paper analyses whether competition law can help to solve problems of access to data and interoperability in IoT … this device). Such a gatekeeper position can lead to the elimination of competition for after-market and other … paper analyses, in particular, the competition rules about abusive behavior of dominant firms (Art. 102 TFEU) and of firms …
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Technical innovation has bestowed us with an abundance of channels for audiovisual media providers. More and more platforms for distributing content have become available. Cable and satellite systems have significantly increased their capacity in recent years. The quality of IPTV (Television...
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considerations. They argue that important policy goals like universal service will not be achieved by competition. However, an … my article, I describe a new concept of public-private competition, according to which governments use state owned … possible to extend public-private competition from urban to rural areas, where markets are too small to sustain more than one …
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policies and competition controlling for relevant supply and demand side factors. Our econometric model employs dynamic panel … impact on investment in new infrastructure. Furthermore, infrastructure-based competition from mobile operators and the …
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The multiple crises observed in the European Union over the past decade have undermined trust and the foundations for cohesion in Europe. In the absence of a common government, confederations without strong common independent institutions are fragile and prone to collapse. Some of the observed...
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During the second half of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman policy-makers adopted a more liberal attitude towards price formation. This was accompanied by the fiscal and administrative centralization of the grain trade. These seemingly contradictory policy changes could, in part, be explained...
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This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat posed by the Ottoman Empire five centuries ago. This threat intensified in the second half of the 15th century and peaked in the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman...
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