Access to telecommunications networks

telecommunication;telecommunication industry;networks;access to market;policy;allocation;microeconomics

Cyclical Metamorphosis: The Accreditation Experience of Middle Managers in Local Colleges in CALABARZON, Philippines

This phenomenological study, which followed Moustakas's qualitative framework, determined the lived experiences of selected middle managers in the accreditation process of local colleges in CALABARZON. Six prevailing themes showed the participants’ experience in accreditation. Theme 1 covered the meeting and sustaining standards wherein the participants deemed the importance of orientation on the nature of accreditation. Theme 2 underscored quality and excellence wherein they acknowledged the prestige of recognition once they get the accreditation status sought, which should reaffirm their commitment to the mission-vision-goal statement of their institution. Theme 3 accentuated their experience in the search for innovation, theme 4 focused on hitting the deadline and quality metrics and the challenges of coordination and teamwork. Theme 5 tackled issues on hitting standards which cover financial constraints, facilities and logistics issues, and attracting educators to stay in local colleges. Finally, Theme 6 presented that accreditation is a stress-related endeavor. Still, the participants agreed that institutions of higher learning should be ready for stressors as they are part of achieving recognition and prestige

The Economics of Books

The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses are analysed and insights from the theory of industrial organisation are given.Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants for authors and publishers, a lower value-added tax, public libraries and education in order to stimulate the diversity of books on offer, increase the density of retail outlets and to promote reading.An overview of the different ways by which countries differ in terms of market structures and government policies is given. Particular attention is paid to retail price maintenance.Due to differences between European countries it is not a good idea to harmonise European book policies.Our analysis suggests that the book market seems quite able to invent solutions to specific problems of the book trade and that, apart from promoting reading, there is little need for government intervention.books;publishers;authors;diversity;monopolistic competition;retail price maintenance;subsidies;libraries;Internet

Think before You Speak: Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project - The Terrorists Stole My Freedom of Speech

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Tight oligopolies: in search of proportionate remedies

Tight oligopolies are oligopolies the market characteristics of which facilitate the realisation of supranormal profits for a substantial period of time. We entangle the link between market structure and the possibility of welfare reducing behaviour by firms. A useful distinction can be made between ‘unilateral effects' (oligopolistic firms realise supra-normal profits without co-ordinating their strategies) and ‘co-ordinated effects' (oligopolistic firms realise supra-normal profits by co-ordinating their strategies). The study develops a ‘diagnostic approach', a tool that helps policy makers find proportionate remedies to tight oligopolies: (1) ‘prevent' a market from becoming a tight oligopoliy; (2) ‘cure' a currently tight oligopoly by changing the market structure; and (3) treat the symptoms of an established tight oligopoly. We apply this diagnostic approach to six cases of (potentially) tight oligopolies.

The Economics of Books

The tensions between books and book markets as expressions of culture and books as products in profit-making businesses are analysed and insights from the theory of industrial organisation are given. Governments intervene in the market for books through laws concerning prices of books, grants for authors and publishers, a lower value-added tax, public libraries and education in order to stimulate the diversity of books on offer, increase the density of retail outlets and to promote reading. An overview of the different ways by which countries differ in terms of market structures and government policies is given. Particular attention is paid to retail price maintenance. Due to differences between European countries it is not a good idea to harmonise European book policies. Our analysis suggests that the book market seems quite able to invent solutions to specific problems of the book trade and that, apart from promoting reading, there is little need for government intervention.books, publishers, authors, diversity, monopolistic competition, retail price maintenance, subsidies, libraries, internet