We consider an unregulated incumbent who owns a broadband infrastructure and decides on how much access to provide to a … potential entrant. The level of access determines the amount of investment the entrant needs to undertake to enter the market …, and the intensity of post-entry competition. We show that the equilibrium level of access is higher when the sensitivity …

Developing a simple model of the content and access industries in the digital era, we show that, given the positive … consumption externality from entertainment content (music, video) on access networks and playing devices (fixed broadband, 3G … mobile, digital players, etc.), both content and access industries have an interest in blurring their business frontiers. As …

In a fully liberalized postal market, two business models will be possible for a new postal operator: (1) access: where … competing firm controls the entire supply chain and delivers mails with its own network. The choice between access and bypass … depends on the entrant's delivery cost relative to the access price. In this paper, we derive welfare maximizing prices for …

numerical calibration of our model indicate that in the case where entry is confined only to access, a range of procedures …