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have been subject to open access rules, analogous to NN regulation, that have varied across time and technologies. These … broadband regulation deters subscriber growth, potentially important empirical input into the ongoing regulatory debate …
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Vertical restrictions have theoretically ambiguous efficiency effects. Marketplace evidence is therefore required to reveal the presence of anti-competitive foreclosure. The bundling of mobile phones with cellular network service offers one such market test. Two European nations — Finland and...
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This paper experimentally studies the role of search cost in duopoly markets where sellers may be able to coordinate pricing decisions. We vary the level of search cost and whether sellers can communicate. While we find that consumers are more likely to invest in search when cost is reduced, we...
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We present a research project in experimental law and economics about the effects of new transparency provisions in European telecommunications law on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and end-users in broadband markets, with implications for the debate on network neutrality. Our experiment...
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Understanding what determines the extent to which economic agents tell the truth to their regulating authority is of major economic importance, from banking to environmental protection. To this end, we examine truth-telling of German commercial fishermen in an artefactual field experiment. Their...
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In April 1949, KPFA in Berkeley, California, went on the air. From the beginning, the station broadcast an utterly new combination of political commentary and cultural discussion, dedicated to creative expression and dissent. In this fascinating account, Jeff Land tells the heroic story of the...
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government may exert oversight over the SRO itself, a construction referred to as “meta-regulation" or "co-regulation", or … incentives to set lax standards or to cover up detected violations. Nonetheless, some research indicates that meta-regulation … investigations of the SRO members take place, and no meta-regulation of the SRO is necessary.I extend this model to include plausible …
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with pro-social behavior. We find that freedom from each of the following components of regulation; interest rate controls …
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