Competition in network industries: Evidence from the Rwandan mobile phone network. [PDF]
This article analyzes the potential for competition policy to affect welfare and investment in a network industry. When a network is split between competitors, each internalizes less network effects, but may still invest to steal customers.
Björkegren D.
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A concept for performance measurement and evaluation in network industries; pp. 536–542 [PDF]
The structure and functioning of network industries have a great effect on the well-being of society, being also prerequisites for economic growth and productivity. Social goals, industry trends, ownership structures, and the economic environment play an
Kristjan Kuhi +2 more
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Assessment of the economic regulation of network industries: oil shale value chain in Estonia; pp. 158–176 [PDF]
Naturally monopolistic network industries are subject to economic regulation to achieve an optimal use of infrastructure and avoid the abuse of monopolistic power. In theory, such intervention leads to a higher allocative and productive efficiency in the
Raigo Uukkivi, Ott Koppel
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Research on the Upgrading Path of Emerging Industry Innovation Service Network [PDF]
Innovation service network is the inevitable result of the collaborative cooperation of innovation service subjects, and also an important strategic resource for innovation activities in emerging industries. The research of innovation service network has
Li Yue, Xu Huijie, Zhou Yan
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Strategic product compatibility in network industries
This article considers a product’s compatibility as a strategic variable in a Cournot duopoly with network consumption externalities. It develops a non-cooperative compatibility decision game (CDG) in which firms choose whether to let products be (in ...
D. Buccella, L. Fanti, L. Gori
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The Timing of Technology Adoption in Network Industries
This paper analyzes the effect of network externalities on firms’ timing of new technology adoption in a network industry. In a pre-commitment game under Cournot competition, network effects tend to accelerate the timing of the leader and the follower ...
Leonard F. S. Wang, D. Buccella
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GUARANTEEING THE ACCES OF THIRD PARTIES TO THE NETWORK INDUSTRIES SPECIFIC INFRASTRUCTURES – A VITAL COMPONENT OF EU'S POLICY IN THE FIELD OF COMPETITION ON THE ENERGY MARKET, IN THE CONTEXT OF THE NEED TO INSURE ENERGY INDEPENDENCE WHILE MANTAINING AFFORDABLE PRICES [PDF]
As both the practical experience and the theoretical constructions of successive generations of practitioners and researchers of the phenomenon of the economy and the legal norms associated with its proper functioning have proven, the most important ...
Iulian BĂICULESCU +1 more
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Models of Regulation as Tool for Risk Elimination in Network Industry Markets in Slovakia [PDF]
In Slovakia in the recent period of time we have seen an intensive discussion concerning the effectiveness of the price regulation methods in Network Industries and the objectivity and the labour social effectiveness of The Regulatory Office for Network ...
Fendekova Eleonora
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An in-fiber Mach-Zehnder interferometer is proposed for the discrimination of strain and temperature. The sensor is based on two cascaded standard single mode fibers using three peanut tapers fabricated by simple splicing.
Shiying Xiao +4 more
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