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Old Technology Upgrades, Innovation, and Competition in Vertically Differentiated Markets
Bourreau, Marc; Lupi, Paolo; Manenti, Fabio - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2013
' migration to the new technology. When the quality of the old technology is exogenous and the entrant dominates investment in the … incumbent dominates investment. When the incumbent can decide on an endogenous upgrade of the old technology, the migration to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156733
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Access regulation and the transition from copper to fiber networks in telecoms
Bourreau, Marc; Cambini, Carlo; Doğan, Pınar - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2013
In this paper we study the impact of different forms of access obligations on firms’ incentives to migrate from the legacy copper network to ultra-fast broadband infrastructures. We analyse three different kinds of regulatory interventions: geographical regulation of access to copper networks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721535
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Access pricing, competition, and incentives to migrate from “old” to “new” technology
Bourreau, Marc; Cambini, Carlo; Doğan, Pınar - In: International Journal of Industrial Organization 30 (2012) 6, pp. 713-723
In this paper, we analyze the incentives of an incumbent and an entrant to migrate from an “old” technology to a “new” technology, and discuss how the terms of wholesale access affect this migration. We show that the coverage of the new technology varies non-monotonically with the access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011051641
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Old technology upgrades, innovation, and competition in vertically differentiated markets
Bourreau, Marc; Lupi, Paolo; Manenti, Fabio M. - In: Information Economics and Policy 29 (2014) C, pp. 10-31
technology is exogenous and the entrant dominates investment in the new technology, the old technology is completely switched off … in equilibrium. On the other hand, when the incumbent dominates investment, the old technology persists. When the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011117751
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Ex ante regulation and co-investment in the transition to next generation access
Bourreau, Marc; Cambini, Carlo; Hoernig, Steffen - In: Telecommunications Policy 36 (2012) 5, pp. 399-406
according to geographical differences in NGAN deployment; the impact of co-investment decisions on market outcomes and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943072
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Dynamic Entry and Investment in New Infrastructures: Empirical Evidence from the Fixed Broadband Industry
Bacache, Maya; Bourreau, Marc; Gaudin, Germain - In: Review of Industrial Organization 44 (2014) 2, pp. 179-209
In the telecommunications industry, the ladder-of-investment approach claims that service-based competition (when … ladder-of-investment, composed of three rungs: bitstream access, local loop unbundling and new access facilities. Using data … test the ladder-of-investment hypothesis. We find no empirical support for this hypothesis, that is, for the transition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010988285
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Access regulation and the transition from copper to fiber networks in telecoms
Bourreau, Marc; Cambini, Carlo; Doğan, Pınar - In: Journal of Regulatory Economics 45 (2014) 3, pp. 233-258
In this paper we study the impact of different forms of access obligations on firms’ incentives to migrate from the legacy copper network to next generation broadband infrastructures. We analyze geographically differential access prices of copper (that depend on whether or not an alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010989239
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Net Neutrality with Competing Internet Platforms
Bourreau, Marc; Kourandi, Frago; Valletti, Tommaso - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2014
We propose a two-sided model with two competing Internet platforms, and a continuum of Content Providers (CPs). We study the effect of a net neutrality regulation on capacity investments in the market for Internet access, and on innovation in the market for content. Under the alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010826216
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Net Neutrality with Competing Internet Platforms
Bourreau, Marc; Kourandi, Frago; Valletti, Tommaso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We propose a two-sided model with two competing Internet platforms, and a continuum of Content Providers (CPs). We study the effect of a net neutrality regulation on capacity investments in the market for Internet access, and on innovation in the market for content. Under the alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083479