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    <title>EconStor Collection: 8th Asia-Pacific Regional ITS Conference, Taipei 2011</title>
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      <title>The broadband debate: A documentary research on the broadband policy in Australia</title>
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      <description>Title: The broadband debate: A documentary research on the broadband policy in Australia
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Li, Grace
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: Against a current trend of investing in the next generation networks (NGNs) by using public funds, the Australian government has recently initiated a so-called National Broadband Networks (NBN) project to invest up to AUD$36 billion tax payer's money on building a national wide fibre broadband network aiming to cover 93 per cent Australian by 2020. As being the most costly infrastructure-building project in Australian history, the NBN project will use a public-private-partnership as the instrument to deliver super-fast broadband services, create jobs and promote the country's economy at large. This article will critically analyse the NBN project in Australia and highlight the challenges that are coming alone at this early stage of the deployment, so the Australia's experience of pubic investment in broadband networks can be shared and lessons can be learned.</description>
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      <title>China's tackling of online pornography: Puzzles, issues and trends</title>
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      <description>Title: China's tackling of online pornography: Puzzles, issues and trends
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Ning, Yan Mai</description>
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      <title>Decisions about entry modes for telecom companies into digital music business: An empirical case study</title>
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      <description>Title: Decisions about entry modes for telecom companies into digital music business: An empirical case study
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Wua, Pei-Ju; Fenga, Cheng-Min; Pana, Ya-Chuan
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: The digital music market offers an opportunity for telecom companies to furnish value-added services. However, little effort has been made to study empirically how to make a decision about entry modes for telecom companies into digital music business. This study therefore investigates various strategies that telecom companies may implement to enter the digital music industry. The results of a series of expert surveys reveal that the preference ranking of entry modes is acquisition, joint venture, and contractual agreement, respectively. Moreover, the leading key factors in selecting entry modes are complementary capabilities, hostility of environment, relational risk between firms as partners, commitment of resources, and availability of expertise. Furthermore, an importance-performance analysis was conducted to understand the different aspects that are of different performances and importance in each entry mode. The implications of the findings are also discussed.</description>
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      <description>Title: Investment, dynamic consistency and the sectoral regulator's obective
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&lt;br/&gt;Authors: Brito, Duarte; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, João
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&lt;br/&gt;Abstract: We explore the separation of powers between the legislative and the executive branch of government as a way of overcoming the dynamic consistency problem of regulatory policy towards investment. We model the industry as a regulated duopoly. The incumbent is a vertically integrated firm that owns a wholesaler and a retailer. The entrant owns a retailer. Either retailer needs access to the input produced by the wholesaler to operate. The incumbent can make an investment that improves the quality of the input produced by the wholesaler. The regulator sets the access price and is unable to commit. The legislator sets the regulator's objective function and is able to commit. We derive general conditions under which having the legislator distort the regulator's objective function away from social welfare allows increasing the range of parameter values for which it is possible to induce socially desirable investment.</description>
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