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As a result of the prevailing governance structure, economic policy in democracies usually suffers from specific deficiencies. Among these are the predominance of distributive over efficiency objectives, the neglect of long-run effects, and the lack of or biased use of expert knowledge in the...

The significant increase of internet traffic is to a large extent caused by more high-data-rate applications like file-sharing etc. Although network operators constantly increase router and line capacities, overload occurs from time to time, causing delays, jitter and packet-losses at the data...

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This paper analyzes the impact of different payment regimes for mobileto- mobile off-net calls on the diffusion of mobile telephony, using data on 84 countries from all over the world. Since the decision whether or not countries are likely to switch from RPP to CPP is not independent from...

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Gliederung 1 Einleitung und Problemstellung 2 Ueberlastfolgen auf der Ebene der Datenpakete 3 Ueberlast und Qualitaetsminderung 4 Overprovisioning, Optimale Kapazitaet und Investitionsanreize 5 Dienstespezifische Qualitaetsminderung 6 Crowding-Out hochwertiger Dienste 7 Priority Pricing und...