study the effect of a net neutrality regulation on capacity investments in the market for Internet access, and on innovation …

the entire infrastructure. An open access policy raises welfare, but may make the project non-viable since funding must be … provided by capital contributions and access charges. The infrastructure owner can ask the incumbent for a higher capital … monopoly franchising, while a threat of regulatory capture creates an open-access presumption. …

. In a model that captures the technological conditions operating in industries such as telephony, gas, rail, where access … to a distribution network is essential to the ability to compete, we show that this is not the case. Instead, the access …

preemption a higher access charge can delay first investment. Constant access tariffs cannot achieve the first best. Optimal time … allowing for lower future access charges, which delay the second investment. …We analyze the impact of mandatory access on the infrastructure investments of two competing communications networks …

We analyze competition between vertically integrated infrastructure operators that provide access in different … geographical areas. A regulator may impose a uniform access price, set local access rates, or deregulate access locally. We analyze … the impact of these alternative regulatory regimes on network investments. While cost-based access leads to both …

that the monopolistic outcome prevails independently of market concentration when access prices are determined in bilateral … equilibrium exists under symmetric access prices, provided that call demand is sufficiently inelastic. Existence encompasses the …