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Fleeting neutrality: The inadequacies of the ex-ante net neutrality regulations in India 飞行中立：印度事前网络中立规定的不足

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2022-01-22 DOI: 10.1177/17835917211068789

Raghuvansh Seth

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引用次数: 2

A multi-sided market of personal data resource allocation: An empirical study of China’s car-hailing platform 个人数据资源配置的多面市场——基于中国网约车平台的实证研究

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/17835917211051223

Lei Huang, M. Ladikas, Guangxi He, J. Hahn, J. Schippl

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引用次数: 1

Prioritizing the influencing factors of utaut-2 model toward mobile network service providers 对移动网络服务提供商的utaut-2模型影响因素进行优先排序

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/17835917211055377

Ishani Patharia, Anjana Pandey, Sanjay Gupta

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引用次数: 2

Evaluating the efficiency of Mediterranean container ports using data envelopment analysis 使用数据包络分析评估地中海集装箱港口的效率

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2021-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/17835917211047837

G. Fancello, Patrizia Serra, Valentina Aramu, Daniela Vitiello

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引用次数: 5

Regulating digital platforms as the new network industries 监管数字平台作为新的网络产业

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/17835917211028787

Juan J. Montero, M. Finger

引用次数: 6

Does regulation induce cost efficiency in electricity distribution utilities? Use of stochastic cost frontier analysis for the Indian states 监管是否能提高配电公司的成本效率?印度各邦随机成本前沿分析的应用

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2021-06-01 DOI: 10.1177/17835917211029498

Amit Nandan, Hrushikesh Mallick

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引用次数: 1

Entitlement problems in digital markets and how antitrust shapes the appropriation of network externalities 数字市场中的权利问题，以及反垄断如何影响网络外部性的挪用

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2021-03-26 DOI: 10.1177/17835917211003198

Linus J. Hoffmann

{"title":"Entitlement problems in digital markets and how antitrust shapes the appropriation of network externalities","authors":"Linus J. Hoffmann","doi":"10.1177/17835917211003198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/17835917211003198","url":null,"abstract":"The engine of value creation in the digital economy is network externalities, i.e. the phenomenon by which the value to a new user from adopting a good or service increases in the number of users who already adopted it. But network externalities are not manna from heaven. They are ‘sponsored’ by firms who make demand expanding investments. In areas with imperfect property institutions like the digital economy, a key business decision for profit maximizing firms consists in devising value capture strategies to appropriate their investments. This paper identifies three recurrent types of appropriation disputes in digital markets: Access to software platforms, limitations to the exploitation of raw data and claims over digital content. At the heart of each dispute lies the controversial exercise of an entitlement over a digital asset that is embedded in a context of or exhibits itself network externalities. The appropriation of this asset and its integration into the firm’s ecosystem could make the firm benefit from network efficiencies. Controlling the digital asset in question becomes a proxy. Appropriation strategies by proxy can have pro- and anti-competitive effects. This is why each dispute can not only be understood as a problem of appropriability, but also as a problem of potential harm to competition. And indeed, competition enforcers have brought forward various cases with underlying appropriation disputes. This paper tracks the influence of three of them on the appropriability of assets in the digital economy, and on digital firms’ strategies to capture the value of network externalities.","PeriodicalId":38329,"journal":{"name":"Competition and Regulation in Network Industries","volume":"22 1","pages":"71 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/17835917211003198","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48262444","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}

引用次数: 0

Public-private partnerships in Mexico: Challenges and opportunities at local level 墨西哥的公私伙伴关系:地方层面的挑战与机遇

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/1783591720987698

Hugo J. Fuentes, Gustavo Mendoza, M. Montoya, Ismael Aguilar

引用次数: 0

Data-driven sector coupling in 5G-based smart networks 基于5G的智能网络中数据驱动的扇区耦合

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI: 10.1177/1783591721992762

Guenter Knieps

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引用次数: 1

OPEX-risk as a source of CAPEX-bias in monopoly regulation 运营成本风险是垄断监管中资本支出偏差的来源

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries Pub Date : 2020-12-30 DOI: 10.1177/1783591720983184

G. Brunekreeft, Margarethe Rammerstorfer

引用次数: 4