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Can Two-Part Tariffs Promote Efficient Investment on Next Generation Networks?
Brito, Duarte; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, João - Autoridade de Concorrência, Government of Portugal - 2008
investment cost is low, the regulator can induce investment when he cannot commit to a policy. Second, we show that in this case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005115563
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Incentives to invest and to give access to non-regulated new technologies
Brito, Duarte; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, João - In: Information Economics and Policy 24 (2012) 3, pp. 197-211
decide not to invest. When investment occurs, the vertically integrated firm may be induced to give access to the entrant for … a low access price for the old technology. Furthermore, when both firms can invest, investment occurs under a larger set …
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Incentives to Invest and to Give Access to Non-Regulated Next Generation Networks
Brito, Duarte; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, João - Autoridade de Concorrência, Government of Portugal - 2008
We analyze the incentives of a telecommunications incumbent to invest and give access to a downstream entrant to a next generation network, NGN. We model the industry as a duopoly, where a vertically integrated incumbent and a downstream entrant, that requires access to the incumbent's network,...
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Network Neutrality under ISP duopoly: on the ability to assign capacity
Brito, Duarte; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, João - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2013
advertising revenues. We further show that the impact of network neutrality regulation on the investment in the quality of network … among CPs, investment and welfare are higher under the discriminatory regime. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699749
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The role of regulation in financing transport infrastructures in Italy
Beria, Paolo; Ponti, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The paper discusses the present regulatory framework in Italy concerning transport infrastructures financing and provides some policy indications. The Italian situation is characterised by non homogeneity among the transport modes and insufficient, or even perverse, incentives to efficiency....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837154
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Competition and investment in telecommunications: Does competition have the same impact on investment by private and state-owned firms?
Lestage, Romain; Flacher, David; Kim, Yeonbae; Kim, Jihwan - In: Information Economics and Policy 25 (2013) 1, pp. 41-50
investment. The hypothesis that liberalization promotes investment has received the most empirical support in recent research … investment by private and state-owned firms. We conduct an empirical study of the infrastructure investment of 20 incumbent … infrastructure investment by state-owned incumbents but reduces investment by private incumbents. …
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Access regulation and geographic deployment of a new generation infrastructure
Flacher, David; Jennequin, Hugues - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2012
access to them (OPf2). In our model, the level of investment is decided at stage 1 and the access price is decided at stage 2 … welfare and number of FTTH consumers) will be at its highest if both investment and access price decisions are taken by the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983314
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Broadband Investment and the Threat of Regulation: Preventing Monopoly Exploitation or Infrastructure Construction?
Blum, Ulrich; Growitsch, Christian; Krap, Niels - In: Review of Network Economics 6 (2007) 3, pp. 342-354
influence both the investment decision and the investor's price via her signals on regulation probability and price. …
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e-Communications: Investment and the Regulatory Framework
Jones, Siôn; Jones, Pau - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
estimate the level of e-communications investment in the EU and to examine its main drivers as part of a contributio to the … provides a description of the process of collecting data on investment in physical infrastructure in the e …-communciations sector by country and by sub-sector. It also presents the collected data, showing a decline in overall investment between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789277
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Can India Achieve Double-digit growth ?
Herd, Richard; Conway, Paul; Hill, Sam; Koen, Vincent; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
investment. Stepping up structural reforms will also be necessary if double-digit growth rates are to be achievable over the … improving in key sectors, partly thanks to greater private investment, bottlenecks endure and efforts to intensify competition … and ensure continued strong investment are required. Labour market reforms are also required to promote job creation …
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