We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications … accommodates: different investment incentives for incumbents and entrants; a strategic interaction of entrants' and incumbents … investment. Thus promoting market entry by means of regulated access undermines incentives to invest in facilities …

We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications … accommodates: different investment incentives for incumbents and entrants; a strategic interaction of entrants' and incumbents … investment. Thus promoting market entry by means of regulated access undermines incentives to invest in facilities …

consumer welfare. The model consists of an investment stage with uncertain returns and subsequent quantity competition. The … access price is a function of investment costs and the regulatory regime. A regime with fully distributed costs or a … holiday, respectively. Risk-sharing benefits consumers as it combines relatively high ex-ante investment incentives with …

goods, a symmetric risk allocation is superior as it ensures sufficient investment incentives even if competition is very … product differentiation with price competition between an investing and an access seeking firm. Given uncertainty about the …