Showing 1 - 10 of 755
Ownership unbundling and third party access are discussed as two options of unbundling in both the literature and … unbundling and third party access regimes on customer prices. Substantially different results are found using dynamic rather than … static analysis. In particular, negative short term effects of ownership unbundling found in static models are approximately …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957589
television regulation in light of these developments. It surveys the dismal empirical record on the effects of price regulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084592
Under ex ante access regulation entrants often claim that access fees are excessive. I show that this is only the case … strictly positive access fee which may exceed the efficient level. Ex post regulation facilitates this type of collusion and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098270
In the advent of postal market liberalization in several European countries we expect that the incumbent operators anticipate entry by competitors who are not required to offer universal service, i.e. coverage of the entire country and uniform pricing. The market for postal service exhibits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097679
market regulation have motivated this quality improvement. In particular we show that this rise in quality is only profitable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097892
this separation interact with the regulation of the product market. The main issue to be addressed here is how the degree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123598
and gas. The Paper argues that there is unfinished business in the areas of regulation, restructuring, encouraging proper … risk management through contracting, and designing markets and regulation to ensure effective and sustainable competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661538
What explains the world-wide trend of pro-entrepreneurial policies? We study entrepreneurial policy in a lobbying model taking into account the conflict of interest between entrepreneurs and incumbents. It is shown that international market integration leads to more pro-entrepreneurial policies....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008530366
absence of any regulation, private investment decisions on capacity unambiguously lead to a socially sub-optimal outcome, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792333
This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; networkbased price discrimination; and call externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468563