Access pricing in network industries with mixed oligopoly

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shana Cui ◽  
David E. M. Sappington
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Oligopoly ◽  
Network Industries ◽  
Access Pricing

scholarly journals Restructuring Industries: The Carrot and the Stick

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger Sherman
Keyword(s):  
Electricity Industry ◽  
Network Industries ◽  
Market Incentives ◽  
Access Pricing ◽  
Telephone Industry

Restructuring brings market incentives into formerly monopolized network industries and raises a host of questions about whether the carrot of profit seeking can be disciplined by the stick of competition. In the telephone industry access pricing is an issue, and major problems are illustrated. In the electricity industry other problems are described and possible solutions are briefly sketched.

Data-driven sector coupling in 5G-based smart networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-68
Author(s):  
Guenter Knieps
Keyword(s):  
Data Privacy ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Network Industries ◽  
5G Networks ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Open Set ◽  
Application Service ◽  
Downstream Application

5G attains the role of a GPT for an open set of downstream IoT applications in various network industries and within the app economy more generally. Traditionally, sector coupling has been a rather narrow concept focusing on the horizontal synergies of urban system integration in terms of transport, energy, and waste systems, or else the creation of new intermodal markets. The transition toward 5G has fundamentally changed the framing of sector coupling in network industries by underscoring the relevance of differentiating between horizontal and vertical sector coupling. Due to the fixed mobile convergence and the large open set of complementary use cases, 5G has taken on the characteristics of a generalized purpose technology (GPT) in its role as the enabler of a large variety of smart network applications. Due to this vertical relationship, characterized by pervasiveness and innovational complementarities between upstream 5G networks and downstream application sectors, vertical sector coupling between the provider of an upstream GPT and different downstream application industries has acquired particular relevance. In contrast to horizontal sector coupling among different application sectors, the driver of vertical sector coupling is that each of the heterogeneous application sectors requires a critical input from the upstream 5G network provider and combines this with its own downstream technology. Of particular relevance for vertical sector coupling are the innovational complementarities between upstream GPT and downstream application sectors. The focus on vertical sector coupling also has important policy implications. Although the evolution of 5G networks strongly depends on the entrepreneurial, market-driven activities of broadband network operators and application service providers, the future of 5G as a GPT is heavily contingent on the role of frequency management authorities and European regulatory policy with regard to data privacy and security regulations.

scholarly journals Bargain Hunting for Buffered Lidocaine: A Collaborative Discovery of Cost-saving Strategies That Can Improve Patient Care

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Curtis L Simmons ◽  
Laura K Harper ◽  
Kathryn J Holst ◽  
Nathan J Brinkman ◽  
Christine U Lee
Keyword(s):  
Sodium Bicarbonate ◽  
Hospital Pharmacy ◽  
Cost Savings ◽  
Improve Patient Care ◽  
Medical Waste ◽  
Radiology Department ◽  
Access Pricing ◽  
Bundled Payments ◽  
Improve Patient ◽  
Procedure Room

Abstract Buffered lidocaine is a local anesthetic option during percutaneous needle-directed procedures in the breast. At our institution, sodium bicarbonate (the buffer) is dispensed in volumes that frequently lead to medical waste and shortages. In this study, we describe how moving the buffering of lidocaine from the procedure room to our clinical hospital pharmacy results in a reduction in costs and improves satisfaction across the breast radiology department. While cost savings are difficult to tease out in practices that opt for bundled payments, we were able to access pricing and supply data and coordinate with our pharmacy to change our practice. Making these changes saves our practice $26 000 a year and allows us to continue to offer buffered lidocaine even during sodium bicarbonate shortages. This manuscript describes how these changes came about and their economic impact.

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