Competition, Contents and Broadband for the Internet in Europe
CoCombine is an EU Framework Programme 6 Specific Support Action
The EU project COCOMBINE evaluates the social and economic impact of widespread broadband use across Europe.
It will open up debate across Europe on the social and economic impact of broadband technology. The 10 partners from industry and academia will produce a series of reports on :
- Interconnection charges and bandwidth pricing in the upstream market
- Spatial, and relational, organisation of peering networks , both at national and continental levels
- Termination rates and access prices for accessing unbundled local loops and for wireless access
- Regulation and Competition Policy for the Internet
- Features of downstream markets such as retail, e-marketing and localised spillovers affecting local economies in peripheral regions.
More information on the COCOMBINE-project can be found on:
www.cocombine.org
Documents / Reports:
D’Ignazio, A., and Giovannetti, E., “Antitrust Analysis for the
Internet Upstream Market: A Border Gateway Protocol Approach” accepted
for publication in the Journal of Competition Law & Economics and
available as a AEI Brookings joint center publication
http://www.aei-brookings.org/publications/abstract.php?pid=1029
D’Ignazio, A., and Giovannetti, E., “From Exogenous to Endogenous
Economic Networks: Internet Applications”, Journal of Economic Surveys
forthcoming .
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=591883
Giovannetti, E., “Diagonal Mergers and Foreclosure in the Internet”
Review of Network Economics, Vol 4, March 2005, pp 33-62.
http://www.rnejournal.com/abstracts/abstract_giovannetti_march05.html
Giovannetti, E., and Ristuccia, C., “Estimating Market Power in the
Internet backbone using the IP Transit Band-X Database”,
Telecommunications Policy, vol 29, May 2005, pp 269-284,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2004.07.001
Workshops:
Competition, Contents and Broadband for the Internet in Europe
10-11 December, Cambridge, UK
More information here
