Subsidies and distorted markets: Do telecom subsidies affect competition?
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- Chiang, Eric P. & Hauge, Janice A., 2013. "The impact of non-neutral federal regulatory policy on competition," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 37(11), pages 1142-1149.
- Casasbuenas, Jaime & de Oliveira, Fernando & Riobó, Alexander, 2014. "Effective subsidies to the demand for fixed broadbandwith an increase in penetration and an undistorted competition landscape: The Colombian case," 20th ITS Biennial Conference, Rio de Janeiro 2014: The Net and the Internet - Emerging Markets and Policies 106900, International Telecommunications Society (ITS).
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subsidies; Universal Service Fund; telecommunications; regulation;JEL classification:
- L52 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Industrial Policy; Sectoral Planning Methods
- L96 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Telecommunications
- O11 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Macroeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2007-12-01 (All new papers)
- NEP-COM-2007-12-01 (Industrial Competition)
- NEP-MIC-2007-12-01 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-REG-2007-12-01 (Regulation)
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