to initiate adequate investment incentives. Using a two-equation estimation approach, a direct competition effect (more … service competition increases the supply of infrastructure) can be disentangled from an indirect effect (more service … competition increases the demand for infrastructure quality and, as a consequence, increases the supply of infrastructure). While …

analysis. These findings show that European Commission interventions are competition enhancing and support the expected … performance of the affected companies in the telecommunications sector. However, while country-addressing interventions and …

This paper gives a survey of the current state of competition in the German Broadband access market. Existing …-based competition is preferable to open-network regulations. The most prospective candidate as an independent network capable of … generating facilities-based competition in Germany is the cable-broadcasting network. The current developments in the cable …

national implementation. While the Second Regulatory Package balanced competition and investment aims, the new Regulatory …

regulatory holidays or geographically differentiated regulations, ii) deregulatory approaches based on effective competition law … of access regulations exist, whereas only a much smaller branch of literature addresses the impact of competition … in grey areas, if there is sufficient pressure from competitive outside options and if competition law is strong. Finally …