access price is a function of investment costs and the regulatory regime. A regime with fully distributed costs or a …This paper analyses how different types of access regulation to next generation networks affect investments and … consumer welfare. The model consists of an investment stage with uncertain returns and subsequent quantity competition. The …

We analyze the incentives of a telecommunications incumbent to invest and give access to a downstream entrant to a next … requires access to the incumbent's network, compete on Hotelling's line. The incumbent can invest in the deployment of a NGN … that improves the quality of the retail services. Access to the old network is regulated, but access to the new network is …

We analyze the incentives of a telecommunications incumbent to invest and give access to a downstream entrant to a next …, that requires access to the incumbent's network, compete on Hotelling's line. The incumbent can invest in the deployment of … a NGN that improves the quality of the retail services. Access to the old network is regulated, but access to the NGN is …

In this paper we study how the coexistence of access regulations for legacy (copper) and fiber networks shapes the … incentives to invest in network infrastructure. To this end, we develop a theoretical model explaining investment incentives by … heterogeneous entrants in internet access markets, as we consider both other telecom and cable TV operators as entrants. In the …

This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory ….s investment incentive and social welfare. Furthermore, the investment level is higher if the regulated ISP is allowed to charge … the CPs. Finally, a socially optimal investment can be opposite to the ISP's choice when the contents are enough …

between parallel concepts within the two different legal frameworks. We will firstly examine Third Party Access in relation to … essential facilities doctrine and refusal of access and we will identify the common points and objectives of these concepts and …

This paper investigates the incentives to invest in improving the quality (as distinguished to investment in a new … activity) in telecommunication industry using the empirical example of wireless markets. We highlight that investment … intensity and penetration rate. We show that there is a target amount of investment for each national market that firms strive …

This paper investigates the incentives to invest in improving the quality (as distinguished to investment in a new … activity) in telecommunication industry using the empirical example of wireless markets. We highlight that investment … intensity and penetration rate. We show that there is a target amount of investment for each national market that firms strive …

influence both the investment decision and the investor's price via her signals on regulation probability and price. …

structures. The investment return in terms of demand increase is uncertain. We compare the impact of different access regulation …A vertically integrated incumbent and an OLO (Other Licensed Operator) compete in the market for broadband access. The … regimes – full regulation, partial regulation (only the copper network is regulated), risk sharing – on investment incentives …