Europe Agreement competition policy for the long term: an accession oriented approach

1997 ◽  
pp. 199-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Holmes ◽  
James Mathis
Keyword(s):  
Competition Policy ◽  
Europe Agreement ◽  
Oriented Approach

scholarly journals Long-term energy supply contracts in European competition policy: Fuzzy not crazy

Energy Policy ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (12) ◽  
pp. 5399-5407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrien de Hauteclocque ◽  
Jean-Michel Glachant
Keyword(s):  
Competition Policy ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
Supply Contracts ◽  
Term Energy

scholarly journals Telecommunications Market Evolution

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. ii
Author(s):  
Mark A Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Competition Policy ◽  
Telecommunications Industry ◽  
End Users ◽  
Market Evolution ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
Telecommunications Market

It would be wrong to expect stability in any large and complex industry today. The Australian telecommunications industry is no exception and in the lead-up to 2017 there have been a number of government reviews and inquiries announced that are certain to add to the instability if the outcomes do not focus on the long-term interests of end users. Whilst stability may not be achievable in an industry that is dependent on rapidly changing technology, there are aspects of telecommunications competition policy that are broken and need to be fixed urgently. Now is not the time to take an axe to the telecommunications competition legislation, especially when the underlying causes of the instability are not being tackled. Mr Graham Shepherd, a leading member of the Telecommunications Association Board and the Journal Board for many years, has retired from the Telecommunications Association Board.

scholarly journals A service-oriented approach to assessing the infrastructure value index

2016 ◽  
Vol 74 (2) ◽  
pp. 542-548 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Amaral ◽  
H. Alegre ◽  
J. S. Matos
Keyword(s):  
Asset Management ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Deferred Maintenance ◽  
Maintenance And Rehabilitation ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Standard Values ◽  
Current Value ◽  
Water Companies ◽  
Oriented Approach

Many national and regional administrations are currently facing challenges to ensure long-term sustainability of urban water services, as infrastructures continue to accumulate alarming levels of deferred maintenance and rehabilitation. The infrastructure value index (IVI) has proven to be an effective tool to support long-term planning, in particular by facilitating the ability to communicate and to create awareness. It is given by the ratio between current value of an infrastructure and its replacement cost. Current value is commonly estimated according to an asset-oriented approach, which is based on the concept of useful life of individual components. The standard values assumed for the useful lives can vary significantly, which leads to valuations that are just as different. Furthermore, with water companies increasingly focused on the customer, effective service-centric asset management is essential now more than ever. This paper shows results of on-going research work, which aims to explore a service-oriented approach for assessing the IVI. The paper presents the fundamentals underlying this approach, discusses and compares results obtained from both perspectives and points to challenges that still need to be addressed.

scholarly journals Innovating Big Tech firms and competition policy: favoring dynamic over static competition

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Petit ◽  
David J Teece
Keyword(s):  
Competition Policy ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Consumer Welfare ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
Entrepreneurial Management ◽  
Resource Orchestration ◽  
Competition Process ◽  
Monopoly Rents ◽  
Sophisticated Version

Abstract This paper gives a fresh account of competition in the digital economy. Economic analysis in the field of industrial organization remains largely focused on a sophisticated version of the Schumpeter–Arrow debate, which is unresolved and largely irrelevant. We posit the need to look at competition anew. Static models of monopoly firms and markets in equilibrium are often used to characterize Big Tech firms’ size and scope. We suggest that this characterization is inappropriate because the growth and diversification of many digital firms lead to a situation of broad-spectrum competition that cuts across markets. Current market positions do not reflect entrenched monopoly power but are vulnerable to competitive pressure of disequilibrating forces arising from the use of data-driven operating models, astute resource orchestration, and the exercise of dynamic capabilities. A few strategic errors by management in the handling of internal transitions and/or external challenges and they could be competitively impaired. The implications of a more dynamic understanding of the competition process in the tech sector are explored. We consider how big data and entrepreneurial management impacts firm performance. We also explore the nature of different types of rents (Schumpeterian, Ricardian, and monopoly rents) and suggest a modified long-term consumer welfare standard for competition policy. We formulate preliminary tests and predictors to assess dynamic competition. Our perspective advances a policy stance that favors innovation.

scholarly journals Evaluating the EU as a Global Leader in International Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sareth Kailas Kumaresan
Keyword(s):  
International Development ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Development Assistance ◽  
Agenda Setter ◽  
Chinese Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Leader ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
The Eu

ESAANZ ESSAY PRIZE WINNERAs the second-largest economy in the world and as the largest provider of development assistance, the EU is a major actor and agenda-setter in international development. This paper seeks to examine the tools used by the EU in providing assistance and the ways in which its approach to development are different to those adopted by other major actors. The EU's use of ODA and market access are distinguished as two major tools employed by the Union to promote its vision for development. Major challenges to the EU's pre-eminence in the field are also outlined, particularly focusing on challenge arising from the emergence of the Chinese model of development assistance. Drawing on reports produced by the European Commission and academic studies, therefore, this paper finds that while there are inherent shortfalls in its approach, with strong normative underpinnings and a long-term oriented approach, the EU remains a successful and prominent actor in international development.

Empirical Approaches to Social Innovation

2019 ◽  
pp. 80-106
Author(s):  
Georg Mildenberger ◽  
Gudrun-Christine Schimpf ◽  
Enrica Chiappero-Martinetti ◽  
Nadia von Jacobi
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Study ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Innovation Research ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Abstract Categories ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Empirical Approaches ◽  
Method Approach ◽  
Oriented Approach

This chapter describes two empirical approaches with which social innovation and its potentially transformative role can be studied. Both are oriented towards the Extended Social Grid Model (ESGM) and strive to bring its abstract categories on the ground and facilitate empirical analyses; first an analysis of long-term comprehensive case studies; and second a mixed-method approach inspired by the capability approach for evaluating the impact of social innovations. Both approaches enter new ground in social innovation research and supply valuable insights into the nature of social innovation and how it can be examined. The historical approach reveals the complexities of social innovation trajectories; the agency oriented approach of the more quantitative study opens new paths for a measurement of social innovation impacts that can be applied in many situations.

A process-oriented approach for mining marine heatwaves with a time series of raster formatted products

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cunjin Xue ◽  
Changfeng Jing
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Spatial Structure ◽  
Surface Temperature ◽  
Sea Surface Temperature ◽  
Temporal Evolution ◽  
Sea Surface ◽  
The Third ◽  
Oriented Approach

<p>A marine heatwave (MHW) is defined as a coherent area of extreme warm sea surface temperature that persists for days to months, which has a property of evolution from production through development to death in space and time. MHWs usually relates to climatic extremes that can have devastating and long-term impacts on ecosystems, with subsequent socioeconomic consequences. Long term remote sensing products make it possible for mining successive MHWs at global scale. However, more literatures focus on a spatial distribution at a fixed time snapshot or a temporal statistic at a fixed grid cell of MWHs. As few considering the temporal evolution of MWHs, it is greater challenge to mining their dynamic changes of spatial structure. Thus, this manuscript proposes a process-oriented approach for identifying and tracking MWHs, named as PoAITM. The PoAITM considers a dynamic evolution of a MWH, which consists of three steps. The first step uses the threshold-based algorithm to identifying the time series of grid pixels which meets the MWH definition, called as MWH pixels; the second adopts the spatial proximities to connect the MWH pixels at the snapshots, and transforms them spatial objects, called as MWH objects; the third combines the dynamic characteristics and spatiotemporal topologies of MWH objects between the previous and next snapshots to identify and track them belonging to the same ones. The final extract MWH with a property from production through development to death is defined as a MWH process. Comparison with the prevail methods of tracking MHWs, The PoAITM has three advantages. Firstly, PoAITM combines the spatial distribution and temporal evolution of MWH to identify and track the MWH objects. The second considers not only the spatial structure of MWH at current snapshot, also the previous and next ones, to track the MWH process, which ensures the MWH completeness in a temporal domain. The third is the dynamic behaviors of MWH, e.g. developing, merging, splitting, are also found between the successive MWH objects. Finally, we address the global MWHs exploring from the sea surface temperature products during the period of January 1982 to December 2018. The results not only show well-known knowledge, but also some new findings about evolution characteristics of MWHs, which may provide new references for further study on global climate change.</p>

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