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Regulation of the Electricity Market in Germany

Heck, Volker - In: CESifo DICE Report 4 (2006) 2, pp. 30-38

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Liberalisation of network industries : Is the electricity sector an exception to the rule?

Coppens, François; Vivet, David - Nationale Bank van België/Banque national de Belqique (BNB) - 2004

For quite a long time, network industries used to be regarded as (natural) monopolies. This was due to these industries having some special characteristics. Network externalities and economies of scale in particular justified the (natural) monopoly thesis. Recently, however, a trend towards...

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Network Neutrality and Congestion Sensitive Content Providers: Implications for Service Innovation, Broadband Investment and Regulation

Kraemer, Jan; Wiewiorra, Lukas - NET Institute - 2010

We consider a two-sided market model with a monopolistic Internet Service Provider (ISP), network congestion sensitive content providers (CPs), and Internet customers in order to study the impact of Quality-of-Service (QoS) tiering on service innovation, broadband investments, and welfare in...

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Natural or Unnatural Monopolies in UK Telecommunications?

Correa, Lisa - School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary - 2003

This paper analyses whether scale economies exists in the UK telecommunications industry. The approach employed differs from other UK studies in that panel data for a range of companies is used. This increases the number of observations and thus allows potentially for more robust tests for...

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Bringing Citizens Back In: Renewing Public Service Regulation

Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

across populations, and that specifically targeted “bottom-up” regulation from the demand-side could usefully address these …

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Network Neutrality and Quality of Service: A two-sided market analysis

Köksal, Emin - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2010

In this paper, we examine welfare implications of switching from a neutrality regime to a network management regime. While in the former a network provider or an integrated ISP should transmit data with a-bit-is-a-bit principle, in the latter it is allowed to differentiate its connection quality...

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Market Shares, Consumer Ignorance and the Reciprocal Termination Charges

Lo, Yu-Shan - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University …

: collusive and social welfaremaximising reciprocity, uniform termination charge, asymmetric regulation, and direct calling price … and asymmetric regulation, it is shown in this paper that the regulator can improve social welfare, without too much … regulation of calling prices may be a welfare-improving alternative over regulation of termination charges. …

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The interconnection prices in telecomunications: from theory to practice

Calzada, Joan; Trillas, Francesc - In: Hacienda Pública Española (2005) 2, pp. 85-125

This paper evaluates the main measures that have been used to regulate the interconnection prices in the telecommunication sector. We show that many of the regulations that are applying the vast majority of countries have very little theoretical support, and we identify the restrictions that...

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EU-Verfahren gegen die Novelle des Telekommunikationsgesetzes gefährdet Liberalisierung

Baake, Pio; Haucap, Justus; Wey, Christian - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 12, pp. 185-188

" nicht unter die Ex-ante-Regulierung stellen soll, wenn hierdurch keine langfristige Behinderung des Wettbewerbs zu erwarten … Regulierung. …

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The Telecommunication Markets in Selected OECD Countries: Market Characteristics and Regulatory Institutions

Kiessl, Thomas; Schedl, Hans - In: CESifo DICE Report 4 (2006) 3, pp. 29-38

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004964370

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