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La convergencia y el principio de la neutralidad tecnológica

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  • Pavón Villamayor, Víctor

    (Universidad de Oxford)

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We discuss the challenges of implementing the technological neutrality principle in converging technologies. The main findings are as follows. First, when industries converge and they are subject to extreme regulatory asymmetries, a cross-industry regulatory transmission mechanism emerges. In particular, we found that the unregulated industry is adversely affected by the implementation of welfare-enhancing regulation in the neighbouring industry. Second, this transmission mechanism creates incentives for regulatory replication by the affected industry. Third, from a cross-industry point of view, the welfare implications of regulatory replication are ambiguous since they depend on the degree of vertical differentiation across platforms, the magnitude of regulatory intervention and, most importantly, the timing when this replication occurs. We conclude that the implementation of the cross-industry optimal welfare path would require a certain degree of regulatory flexibility and also of the availability of a cross-industry enforcement mechanism that would make the implementation of welfare-enhancing cross-industry policies feasible.// Se analiza los desafíos de instrumentar el principio de neutralidad tecnológica en la regulación de industrias convergentes. Los resultados indican que cuando las industrias que convergen están sujetas a severas asimetrías regulatorias, se gesta un mecanismo de transmisión regulatoria. En particular, encontramos que la industria desregulada sufre efectos negativos que emanan de la regulación instrumentada en la industria adyacente. Este mecanismo de transmisión genera incentivos para que la industria desregulada replique la regulación vigente en la industria regulada. Desde una perspectiva intersectorial, las consecuencias para el bienestar de esta replicación son ambiguas toda vez que éstas dependen del grado de diferenciación vertical entre industrias, la magnitud de la intervención regulatoria y también del momento preciso cuando esta replicación ocurre. Concluimos arguyendo que la instrumentación de una trayectoria óptima de bienestar intersectorial requiere de cierto grado de flexibilidad regulatoria pero también de la disposición de un mecanismo de coacción intersectorial que permita la instrumentación de políticas óptimas cuando éstas sean necesarias.

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  • Pavón Villamayor, Víctor, 2007. "La convergencia y el principio de la neutralidad tecnológica," El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica, vol. 0(296), pages 845-883, octubre-d.
  • Handle: RePEc:elt:journl:v:74:y:2007:i:296:p:845-883
    DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.20430/ete.v74i296.385
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    Keywords

    technological convergence; telecommunications; asymmetric regulation; mixed oligopolies; technological neutrality; convergencia tecnológica; telecomunicaciones; regulación asimétrica; oligotipos mixtos; neutralidad tecnológica;
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    JEL classification:

    • L43 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
    • L96 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Telecommunications
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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