Competition and Regulation in Network Industries最新文献

Regulatory lag, efficiency, and performance. Lessons from a case study 监管滞后、效率和绩效。案例研究的启示

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/17835917241251811

Carlos F. Ceballos Ferroglio, Gustavo Ferro, Á. Neder

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Legal and ownership unbundling in the Turkish natural gas market: A comparative analysis 土耳其天然气市场的法律和所有权分拆：比较分析

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2024-02-24 DOI: 10.1177/17835917241233296

Yunus Emre Gürler, Sinan Ertemel, Matthias Finger, Muzaffer Eroğlu

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Network utility price regulation in Australia in the pre-first world war years 第一次世界大战前澳大利亚的网络公用事业价格监管

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2024-01-17 DOI: 10.1177/17835917231225749

Malcolm Abbott

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Experimenting with co-ownership of energy storage facilities - A case study of the Netherlands 储能设施共同所有权试验--荷兰案例研究

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2023-11-28 DOI: 10.1177/17835917231219174

Jasper van den Boom

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Strategic interaction between wholesale and ancillary service markets 批发市场与辅助服务市场之间的战略互动

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2023-11-22 DOI: 10.1177/17835917231217125

David P. Brown, Andrew Eckert, Douglas Silveira

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Media plurality assessment as a public interest concern in UK merger control 媒体多元性评估是英国并购控制中的一个公共利益问题

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2023-10-27 DOI: 10.1177/17835917231213031

Ioannis Kokkoris

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Competition concerns in digital advertisement markets: Consolidating the regulatory approach for India 数字广告市场的竞争问题:巩固印度的监管方法

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2023-08-30 DOI: 10.1177/17835917231198117

S. Chauhan, Talin Bhardwaj

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Competitiveness based logistics performance index: An empirical analysis in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries 基于竞争力的物流绩效指数:经济合作与发展组织国家的实证分析

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/17835917231185890

M. Polat, Karahan Kara, A. Acar

{"title":"Competitiveness based logistics performance index: An empirical analysis in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries","authors":"M. Polat, Karahan Kara, A. Acar","doi":"10.1177/17835917231185890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17835917231185890","url":null,"abstract":"Logistics, beyond being a strategically important function for global supply chains, is a sector of considerable size in terms of the global economy. Thus, economy-wide logistics capabilities have a strategic impact at the national level, supporting countries to achieve a global competitive advantage. For this reason, the logistics performances of the countries not only show the success of using their existing logistics capabilities but also provide significant indications about their competitiveness at the global level. Due to this strategic impact, this study aims to deal with the logistics performances of OECD countries from the perspective of competitiveness and to determine the competitiveness-based logistics performance index (CB-LPI). For this purpose, data envelopment analysis has been applied with two different techniques. The input variables are the Global Competitiveness Index, and the output variables are the Logistic Performance Index. In this empirical study, 7 inputs (infrastructure, skills, product market, financial system, information and communication technology adoption, business dynamism, innovation capability) and 6 output variables (Customs, Infrastructure, International shipments, Logistics quality and competence, Tracking and tracing, Timeliness) have been used. This study is handled in a total of 5 periods. These periods are 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018. As a result, it was determined that the competitive logistics performances of 8 countries (Australia, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey) were at the level of full efficiency in each period in the application of both techniques. In addition, the CB-LPI covering all OECD countries has been established. Based on the scores obtained, country-based suggestions for countries have been developed.","PeriodicalId":38329,"journal":{"name":"Competition and Regulation in Network Industries","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43313988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Estimating the adoption of electric vehicles: A case study of four Indian states 估计电动汽车的采用:印度四个邦的案例研究

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/17835917231180837

Krishna Saw, Ashu Kedia

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The Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence in Network Industries 网络产业大数据与人工智能治理

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2023-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/17835917231185877

Guenter Knieps

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