When the facilities of an incumbent monopolist are made available to potential competitors through some type if "essential facilities" or related claim, a common concern is that the ability to "buy" inputs substantially attenuates the incentive to "make" inputs. In this paper, we evaluated both...

This POLICY PAPER presents an economic model showing how incumbent local exchange carriers may deter efficient facilities-based entry for high capacity loop facilities through the use of quantity-discount contracts for Special Access services. Since efficient entry is deterred, these contracts...