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...

In summer 2005, the German telecommunication incumbent Deutsche Telekom announced its plans to build a new broadband fibre optics network. Deutsche Telekom decided as precondition for this new network not to be regulated with respect to pricing and third party access. To develop a regulator's...

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...