. Allocating network access on a short-term competitive basis distorts investment decisions as brown firms will pre-empt green … competitors by investing early. Compensating early investors for future network congestion, as for instance in the E.U., only …

Short-term auctions for access to entry terminals of the British gas-network appear to successfully allocate scarce … revelation of private information and minimisation of distortions from network effects. The results suggest that long …

We aim to clarify the role of access charges under two-way network competition, employing a reduced-form approach …. Retaining the key features of specific network competition models but imposing less structure, we analyze the impact of changes … be nonfeasible. -- network competition ; two-way access ; collusion ; nonlinear retail prices …