balancing investment incentives with allocative efficiency and competition objectives. Intermediate regulation is compatible … with incentive regulation and helps lengthening the regulatory commitment period necessary for incentives. However, such … commitment for the whole time horizon of infrastructure or innovation investments is impossible. The compatibility of incentive …

market penetration only later. In the short run, investment is needed mainly to improve productivity in the renewable energy …

This paper examines how product market competition affects firms’ timing of adopting a new technology as well as … whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms … adoption than Bertrand competition. It shows also that competition toughness does not always reinforce adoption incentives …

, in line with economic theory, that firms with no market power are able to shift a high share of a tax burden on to …

This paper analyzes the effects of net neutrality regulation on investment incentives for Internet service providers … trade of the first-priority. Concerning the ISP's investment incentives, we find that capacity expansion affects the sale …

We study the gains from trade in an economy with oligopolistic competition, firm heterogeneity, and innovation …. In addition to markups, selection and innovation provide additional channels through which the trade-induced effect on … channels; we find that innovation plays a small but non-negligible role, while the main component is equally split between the …

productive, have larger investment opportunities and lower own funds for necessary tangible continuation investments than non …