Institut für Halle Institute for Economic Research Wirtschaftsforschung Halle IWH-Diskussionspapiere IWH-Discussion Papers Network investment and the threat of regulation – preventing monopoly exploitation or infrastructure construction? Ulrich...

Abstract: Regulatorische Risiken entstehen, wenn der Staat Institutionen nicht nutzt, um Risiken zu reduzieren, sondern diese verstärkt. Die Parallelität von allgemeiner Wettbewerbsaufsicht und sektoralen Regulierungseinrichtungen erzeugt oft unterschiedliche Regelungen und Interventionen für...

Recently, investments in new generation networks in Germany have been curtailed, since potential investors required this new network be unregulated. To develop a regulator's strategy that allows investments to occur but prevents monopolistic prices, we model an investor's decision problem under...

The European Commission has intensively discussed the mandatory separation of natural gas transmission from production and services. However, economic theory is ambiguous on the price effects of vertical separation. In this paper, we empirically analyse the effect of ownership unbundling of gas...