practitioners and economists, taking the existing regulatory environment as fixed. Based on the degree of existing regulation (full …

This paper questions whether competition can replace sector-specific regulation of mobile telecommunications. We show …

We analyze the impact of mandatory access on the infrastructure investments of two competing communications networks … regulation if the follower’s private incentives are dominated by business-stealing. Here access holidays can improve welfare by …

existing access regulation is based on a single essential network. We show that continued asymmetric access regulation of one … network does not control sufficiently for market power and benefits the unregulated network, and that symmetric regulation … would lead to higher consumer surplus. Furthermore, the whole setup of access regulation may not be viable in the long run …