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Deutsche Bahn: Schienennetzmonopol, Heuschrecken und der Staat
Deutsche Bahn had to pay a total dividend of 2.85 billion euro over the past six years with cumulated annual results of just under 2.35 billion euro....
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Stated benefits of teleworking in Mexico City: a discrete choice experiment on office workers
Commuting is expensive in megacities of emerging economies. By decreasing work-related trips, teleworking may reduce congestion and commuting time....
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Transportation and Communications
As the Korean economy grew rapidly in the past century, market integration took place, driven by improvements in transportation, postal services, and...
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Extant and Possible Tests of Antitrust Illegality
This chapter delineates the tests of antitrust illegality promulgated by U.S. antitrust law and/or E.U. competition law as well as a number of other...
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A Dynamic Baseline Calibration Procedure for CGE models
Baseline assumptions play a crucial role in conducting consistent quantitative policy assessments for dynamic Computable General Equilibrium (CGE)...
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Mind the Gap!—Speed Matters in Education: Relating Technology to Human Capacities
It is key for policymakers to focus on speed for economic or geopolitical reasons. But it will be just as important for the future of human beings in...
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Final conclusion
This thesis states that there are not only science-related, but also non-sciencerelated, institutional barriers to the translation of personalized...
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Policy implications
The previous Part IV found that the institutional setting in Switzerland imposes several barriers to the translation of personalized medicine into...
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Stromnetzinvestitionen und Anreizregulierung — Problemfelder und Lösungsansätze
The earnings of power grid operators in Germany are determined by an incentive regulation scheme in order to achieve efficient grid operation. As the...
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Chapter 13 Conglomerate Mergers and Acquisitions
This chapter focuses on the legally-relevant economic effects and legality of conglomerate mergers and acquisitions (hereinafter conglomerate...
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Effective monitoring and mitigation in the organized wholesale electric power markets
The organized wholesale electric power markets in the United States are characterized by structural market power, and would not produce competitive...
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China’s Anti-Monopoly Law: What is the Welfare Standard?
China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) sets forth the country’s antitrust enforcement policies. We investigate the welfare standard that the AML seeks to...
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Merger Control Policy Under China’s Anti-Monopoly Law
China’s merger policy and enforcement approaches since its Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) took effect in August 2008 are by and large based on the same...
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Chapter 11 Predatory Conduct
To my knowledge, no economist or lawyer has ever explicitly defined the concept “predatory conduct.” However, both economists and lawyers have...
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Empirical Consideration of the Effects of Bit/Data Cap on Telecommunications Operators
This article considers a case where a regulatory agency introduces a qualitative incentive into competition. Due to severe competition, telecom...
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On the social optimality of make-or-buy decisions
This article examines the impact of input prices on an entrant’s make-or-buy decision and on the subsequent social welfare level for three...
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Quality upgrades and bypass under mandatory access
We analyze the interaction between the incumbent’s incentive to upgrade the quality of its network and the entrant’s incentive to build a bypass...
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Imperfect legal unbundling of monopolistic bottlenecks
We study an industry with a monopolistic bottleneck supplying an essential input to several downstream firms. Under legal unbundling the bottleneck...
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Subscription Choices and Switching Costs in Mobile Telephony
In this article, we estimate the price elasticities of demand for subscription and consumer switching costs for mobile telephony. We use a panel data...
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Is fixed-mobile substitution strong enough to de-regulate fixed voice telephony? Evidence from the Austrian markets
In this paper, we estimate own-price elasticities for fixed network voice telephony access and national calls services for private users as well as...