Innovation through regulation. Why America’s corporate innovation beats Japan’s.
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This issue has been posted by María Fernanda Viecens
Net neutrality has become one of the main regulators’ concerns on both sides of the ocean. While president Obama has nominated as FCC chief a strong supporter of Net neutrality rules, the US companies in the conflict attempt to shape European law in the hopes that US regulators will follow suit. Network neutrality began to be a major issue when telecommunications companies issued public statements asking for the ability to charge Internet content providers for access to Internet users.
Traditionally, transmission pricing of Internet traffic has been independent of the content of packets or the identity of the sender or receiver. Continue reading ‘The net neutrality debate: a literature review’
Abstract
This paper reexamines the effect of the regulatory regime on both penetration and coverage of broadband access to the internet. The framework also allows for an evaluation of different public policy measures such as subsidization of broadband demand and supply. A welfare analysis asks what the optimal regulatory regime is and whether and how high-speed access to the internet should be subsidized. Using an approach similar to Valletti et al. (2002), the paper highlights the importance of population density for whether firms invest to provide internet access. The analysis reveals a trade-off between coverage and penetration.
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OECD Communications Outlook 2009 (August 2009)
Commissioner Reding on Digital Europe: Europe’s Fast Track to Economic Recovery
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FTC Chairman: Agency May Enforce Net Neutrality (Computerworld)
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FTC Chair. Outlines Agency’s Oversight (C-SPAN Video-On The Communicators)
María Fernanda Viecens | FEDEA
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and coordinator of NEREC.
Ph.D. in Economics, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
B.S. in Economics, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina)
Her main research fields are industrial organization, regulation, competition policy and two-sided markets.
Madrid, 14 November 2008
IE Business School
The workshop was jointly organized by ENTER and NEREC.
The sessions discussed, among other things, how regulation is responding to the challenges posed by Next Generation Access networks.
See the workshop programme.
Date: September 11-12, 2009
Madrid
NEREC (Network for Economic Research on Electronic Communications) aims at bringing together leading economists from university, industry, consultancy and government agencies to discuss recent research contributions of critical importance for European regulation and policymaking in electronic communications.
The scientific committee of the conference was conformed by
Martin Cave (The University of Warwick)
Jorge Padilla (LECG)
Martin Peitz (University of Mannheim and ZEW)
Georges Siotis (UC3M and DG COMP, Commission of the EU)
Eugenio Miravete (University of Texas at Austin)
The conference agenda consisted of the discussion of the first annual report “Monitoring EU Telecoms Policy” and the contributed sessions .
Details for Registration: click here
Venue: Fundación Rafael del Pino
Rafael Calvo 39,
28010, Madrid
Underground: Rubén Darío Station
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European Parliament Approves EU Telecoms Reform but Adds 1 Amendment: Commission Reaction
Read full article from the original source (the 12 most prominent reforms that would be brought by the reform of the regulatory framework of the EU’s telecoms markets are explained in this article).
Web snag for EU telecoms reform 6 May, BBC
EU telecoms reform goes back to negotiating table 6 May, Telecommunications online