The regulation of telecommunications, railroads, and other network industries has been based on mandatory unbundling …

implications for the ongoing policy debate over government investment in broadband infrastructure to encourage productivity and …

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

the costs associated with investment in fiber-optic networks are likely recoverable in some markets, but that there is a …

make the situation worse, an impact assessment analysis should accompany every law and every regulation of every Ministry …

We examine the performance attributes of a merchant transmission investment framework that relies on market driven …' transmission investment to provide the infrastructure to support competitive wholesale markets for electricity. Under a stringent … set of assumptions, the merchant investment model has a remarkable set of attributes that appear to solve the natural …

negative impact from such regulation on ISP investment. Counter to many claims, it is argued here that ISP competition may not … providers. With this additional price it is demonstrated that the type of net neutrality regulation (i.e., weak versus strong … strong net neutrality may stimulate content provider investment while the model concludes that there is unlikely to be any …

government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation …

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