structure with one firm choosing higher investments. While access regulation imposed on the dominant firm leads to lower prices … network effects leading to potentially increased demand, regulation can substantially lower aggregate social welfare …

the monopoly is not contestable, i.e. not controlled by a credible threat of entry, regulation is necessary. The essential …; ex ante in stead of ex post regulation. The corporatist solution has the best performance, but it comes at a high price …

floor, however, a Demsetz auction is worse than no regulation at all of the bottleneck monopoly. Our results apply beyond …

relationship between market structure and innovation, that is the effect of regulation on the incentives to innovate of a regulated … monopolistic firm. More precisely, we discuss the influence of price regulation on the economic incentives to undertake costly R …&D effort to discover a new technology. After a discussion of positive approaches to regulation and their relevance for the …

We consider the regulation of a monopoly facing consumers that may evade payments, an important issue in public …

. Ausweitungen bei der Regulierung sind nur zu rechtfertigen, soweit monopolistische Engpassbereiche betroffen sind. …A current topic in Germany and the EU is the review of railway legislation regarding access and price regulation as … whether unbundling requirements should be extended. Secondly, it discusses a possible new design of price regulation …