consumer interests: theoretically analyzing the decisions an authority takes on both the unbundling regime and the grid charge … consumer-oriented goals to always implement Ownership Unbundling. For a regulator acting in the interests of the industry or … the government, though, results suggest the authority to be indifferent between Legal and Ownership Unbundling; minor …

This paper explores the relation between the regulation of monopolistic upstream prices and the incentives of a …

telecommunications is in line with micro-economic theory, which predicts an increase in efficiency and lower prices when markets are …

lower calls prices. This was done by introducing wholesale regulation and promoting service based competition. Some years …

This paper looks at the effects of different forms of wholesale and retail regulation on retail competition in fixed … increases. We argue that a wholesale price regulation at average costs is not optimal in such a situation and discuss retail …

further-reaching political calls for regulation. While Google is currently in the focus of the discussion, the next candidate … market failure. We provide an economic analysis of these allegations based upon economic theory as well as publicly available … economic perspective and, consequently, do not warrant regulation or other drastic interventions (like breaking the company up …

underlying state of the world (the basic propability of high downstream prices, or the type of the firm), optimal regulation uses …

Ownership unbundling and third party access are discussed as two options of unbundling in both the literature and … unbundling and third party access regimes on customer prices. Substantially different results are found using dynamic rather than … static analysis. In particular, negative short term effects of ownership unbundling found in static models are approximately …

social costs of asset stranding. Under revenue cap regulation, increased cost recovery and higher tariffs may prompt … into mitigating stranded costs while managing household defection impacts in countries with revenue cap regulation and …

Regulierung der Netznutzungsentgelte den Wettbewerb im nachgelagerten Produkt fördern kann. Es werden zwei Typen von …, daß eine kostenorientierte Regulierung der Netznutzungsentgelte den Wettbewerb fördern kann aber nicht muß. … price-discrimination when there is downstream entry, and (2) to examine the question, whether a cost-based regulation of …