This paper examines firms' incentive to make irreversible investments under an open access policy with stochastically growing demand. Using a simple model, we derive an access-to-bypass equilibrium. Analysis of the equilibrium confirms that the introduction of competition in network industries...

We take the view that alternative trading opportunities may influence the loss to delay in a bargaining situation, and show that contractual exclusivity may then be relevant even for ‘internal’ investments, contradicting a recent finding by Segal and Whinston (2000). When a buyer is an...