supposed to be high on the ADSL market because of already existing regulation. We assume that two types of operators are …. At stage 3, OPf1 and OPf2 compete à la Cournot. This common framework allows us to show that the regulation defining … access price in order to maximise infrastructure deployment is strictly equivalent to the case in which no regulation applies …

infrastructure investments beyond the level achieved by access regulation and they seem to facilitate tacit price collusion. On the …

Cost-based pricing has dominated the regulatory regime of network industries - and first of all, the regulation of the … opening and liberalization in these industries; it abolished industry regulation in several segments of the market of network … industries. Now it applies so-called cost-based pricing in areas where regulation is still in place. CEE countries now use the …

investment cost is low. We also show that, when voluntary access provision occurs in equilibrium, access regulation is socially … desirable only if the degree of spillover is small and the investment cost is high. On the contrary, access regulation is …

Commission's current decision to lift the ex ante regulation on the fixed-line telephony market. …

Network operators of competing infrastructures in European electronic communications markets face asymmetric regulation … the quality of networks develop in the presence of asymmetric regulation and original quality differences? Based on a …