Standards, trade and competition in the emerging Global Information Infrastructure environment

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 817-830

  David, Paul A ^a   Steinmueller, W Edward ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); INTERNATIONAL LAW; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; STANDARDS; VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

GLOBAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE (GII); INTERNET CONGESTION PROBLEMS;

TELECOMMUNICATION CONTROL;

EID: 0030381494     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0308-5961(96)00058-4     Document Type: Article

References (13)

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2. European Commission ‘PACE’ The employment and economic impacts of advanced communications, and social trends in the use of communication services 1995 European Commission, DG XIII Brussels
3. Mansell R Steinmueller WE The way forward: socio-economic and policy issues and advanced communication technologies and services: a Report for the ACTS FAIR Project AC093 Some of the complexities in achieving these outcomes are examined further in 5 March 1996 Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) Falmer, UK and Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT), Maastricht, The Netherlands
4. Mansell R The New Telecommunications 1993 Sage London
5. Greif A Institutions and international trade: lessons from the commercial revolution American Economic Review 82 2 1992 128 139
6. On the challenge of designing standardization policies to cope with these problems, see David PA Some new standards for the economics of standardisation in the information age Dasgupta P Stoneman P The Economics of Technology Policy 1987 Cambridge University Press Cambridge also
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10. Further discussion of the pro- and anti-competitive effects of standards may be found in David PA Steinmueller WE Economics of compatibility standards in telecommunications networks Information Economics and Policy 1994 217 241
11. This is a central issue in Mansell R Davies A Hulsink W The new telecommunications in The Netherlands: strategic developments in technologies and markets September 1995 Rathenau Institute The Hague, The Netherlands
12. Noam Eli Telecommunication in Europe 1992 Oxford University Press Oxford
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