Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary …

Telecommunications Act of 1996, with a focus on the implications of irreversible investment. Although the goal is to promote competition …This paper addresses the impact on investment incentives of the network sharing arrangements mandated by the … network services, which creates a significant investment disincentive …

to invest in telecommunications. Results indicate that the irreversibility premium raises the opportunity cost of capital …

There is usually considerable uncertainty about the amount of investment that will accompany any level of protection …

, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three … investment decisions are complementary, in the sense that investing in one increases the probability of investing in another one …

Which is the tighter constraint on private sector investment: weak property rights or limited access to external …