to invest compared to autarky. The investment levels remain inefficient though. With generation facilities over-investment … occurs sometimes, while systematic under-investment occurs for transportation facilities. Free-riding reduces the incentives … investment. …

Will telecommunications policy in the form of industry-specific regulation go away? A literature review of the five …) universal service suggests that in some of them a move to competition policy will soon be the efficient state of the art, while … regulation will remain efficient in others for some time. In particular, some regulation should persist for net neutrality in the …

telecommunications policies in the U.S. and EU? Based on a survey of the relevant U.S. and EU related economics literature the current …

The paper studies the impact of government budget constraint in a pure adverse selection problem of monopoly regulation …. The government maximizes total surplus but incurs some cost of public funds. An alternative to regulation is proposed in …-post with the private firms. This ex-post contracting set-up allows more flexibility than traditional regulation where …

competition on investment: competition seemingly helps stimulating investment in the most developed areas, but has probably no …

This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of …-difference estimates show that local deregulation increases local investment in infrastructure by both the incumbent and competitors. …

The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the … as a response to previous physical capital investment with an ultimate goal of inducing higher rates. Theoretical models …) and gross investment (INV) in physical capital. The evidence accruing from a dynamic panel data estimation indicates an …

We consider environmental regulation in a context where firms invest in abatement technology under conditions of … investment subsidy. We compare the properties of the two potential supplements to the emissions tax. …

I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement …