We study the impact of the access charges of copper and fiber unbundling on an incumbent's incentives to invest in …

We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications …' investments; and endogenous regulation. We find access regulation to negatively affect both total industry and individual carrier …

The purpose of this research is to evaluate the impact of vertical unbundling on German electric utilities. Our … supply. Overall, we have two main conclusions. First, the major step in the unbundling process is from "lean legal unbundling …" to "fat legal unbundling"; additional steps beyond that are small, both in benefits and in costs. Second, the benefits of …

coordination. This paper examines three persistent sources of flawed coordination: 1) a regulation versus unbundling dilemma, 2 …What is a good balance between competition and coordination in network industries? Network unbundling aims to promote … competition, but this has to be balanced against the downside of unbundling: firm-internal coordination falls away and must be …

regulated access. -- Telecommunications ; access regulation ; unbundling ; investment …We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications …' investments; and endogenous regulation. We find access regulation to negatively affect both total industry and individual carrier …