Tuesday
Oct252011
Plurality and the Future of PSBs
Robin Foster has authored a short paper on the role and importance of plurality in public service broadcasting.
You can download the paper here.
MediaMonday
Dec312012
Plurality Regulations – Still a Wise Market Intervention?
This paper, building on an earlier paper by Robert Kenny submitted to the Leveson Inquiry, considers the costs and benefits of plurality regulation, and looks at how market developments are eroding the net benefit of that regulation.
The paper has been published in Competition Policy International (paywall). A pre-publication draft is also available.
Tuesday
Nov292022
Policy and regulatory decision-making under uncertainty
The complexity of many regulated industries is increasing. We also live in a world of 'macro' shocks, such as the pandemic and the invasion of Ukraine. In combination, this makes forecasting difficult.
However, virtually every regulatory decision involves comparing anticipated futures and choosing the action that leads to the best-predicted outcome. Thus the increasing difficulty of forecasting is a challenge for regulators.
Together with Access Partnership, Communcations Chambers has published a paper addressing this challenge, and proposing five broad ways of improving decision-making under uncertainty: delegation, experiments, forecasting, waiting, and contingency planning & error correction.
Wednesday
Sep142022
Prospects for consolidation amongst UK fibre-deployers
With over 100 companies deploying fibre-to-the-premise in the UK, there is an industry expectation that consolidation is inevitable. But that doesn't mean that it will be simple, or that potential acquirees will receive attractive bids.
In this paper, Robert Kenny considers
- How consolidation might play out
- What will drive deal dynamics and pricing
- What the practical issues are for various likely consolidators
- What the consolidation of the cable industry from the '90s onwards can teach us