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The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) initiative, which is set to introduce ex ante regulatory rules for “gatekeepers” in online platform markets, is one of the most important pieces of legislation to emanate from Brussels in recent decades. It not only has the potential to...
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exclusive rights of use over information and on the self-regulation of on-line communities. Through a decentralized system of …
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sector regulation and objectives as a context within the process of implementation of competition law in the energy sector … and third, we will investigate how sector regulation in energy sector incorporates competition law principles and affirms … combined with the need for effectiveness and focus on other than competition objectives of sector regulation and we will result …
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telecommunications and strive to avoid repeating them. Regulation of telecommunications in the United States has been embodied in a …
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The paper addresses the question of pricing access to the network facilities of an incumbent firm after deregulation. Network access pricing continues to be regulated in such industries as telecommunications, railroads, electric power and natural gas. We emphasize that access prices should be...
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Through the end of the twentieth century, the most critical regulatory issue facing electric utilities was stranded costs, which can be defined as those costs that the utilities were permitted to recover through their rates but whose recovery may have been impeded or prevented by the advent of...
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The paper analyses the economics behind algorithmic search and recommender services, based upon personalized user data. Such services play a paramount role for online services such as marketplaces (e.g. Amazon), audio streaming (e.g. Spotify), video streaming (e.g. Netflix, YouTube), app stores,...
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findings and their policy implications, particularly regarding competition and regulation in digital markets. These … contributions can inform policies, regulation, and enforcement choices in digital markets that involve services used daily by …
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A recent proposal for net neutrality regulation in the wireless industry suggests carriers should open their networks … resources to enter the market. The lack of a market failure in the wireless industry suggests that such regulation would be … move spectrum into the market quickly and make its use flexible and allow it to be traded. Any proposed regulation must …
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The paper introduces insights into a methodology for developing regulation applicable to networked industries … restructuring of networked utilities in transition economies, discuss the regulation experiences that followed the implementation of … this process, and chart a method in which to establish growth-enabling liberalization through regulation. By evaluating the …
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