sustain. Theory and evidence suggest that pricing network access and use is difficult., risking foreclosure without regulation …

This paper discusses unregulated market-based electricity transmission investment by third parties as opposed to … regulated investment by designated transmission system operators. The analysis is set against a European and Australian …, market power, detrimental investment and risks. The analysis argues for restricting market-based investment to controllable …

Investment in electricity networks, as regulated natural monopolies, is among the highest regulatory and energy policy … electricity sector, identifying investment drivers of power networks facilitates effective regulatory treatment of investment … under incentive regulation. This study analyses the determinants of investment in Norwegian electricity distribution …

Merchant electricity transmission investment is a practically relevant example of an unregulated investment with … monopoly properties. However, while leaving the investment decision to the market, the regulator may decide to prohibit … the capacity choice, given three reasons for capacity withholding: uncertainty, demand growth and pre-emptive investment …

When access to monopoly owned networks is constrained auctioning access rights can increase the efficiency of …, access rights to entry capacity on the British gas network were granted by the monopoly network owner via negotiation; rights …

network. We find that interconnection lowers retail and access prices when the downstream industry is poorly differentiated …

these aspects of the Internet to study the impact of differentiation introduced by wireless access on prices and profits. We … access one. These effects crucially depend on the degree of differentiation between the wireless and fixed Internet access …

In this paper we study concentration in the European Internet upstream access market. Measurement of market …