This paper analyses how different types of access regulation to next generation networks affect investments and … regulatory holiday induces highest investments, followed by risk-sharing and long-run-incremental cost regulation. Risk …

We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-Like-At-Home regulation, which drastically re-duced the price of accessing … impact of the regulation on different user segments. We estimate that around half of the gains stem from a reduction in … deadweight loss, i.e., new users accessing the mobile internet. We further show that the impact of the regulation varies with …

Unbundling, LLU) Zugang zu ihren Netzen zu gewähren. Diese Art der Regulierung soll für mehr Wettbewerb zwischen den …

Die Liberalisierung und Regulierung der Telekommunikationsmärkte in Deutschland ist trotz einiger Widrigkeiten als … innovative Produkte zur Verfügung. Im Zentrum der Regulierung stand für fast eineinhalb Jahrzehnte der diskriminierungsfreie … Regulierung künftig auf andere Bereiche verschieben, wie beispielsweise Fragen des Zugangs zu neuen Glasfasernetzen …

shows that these problems do not automatically imply that sector specific regulation is warranted. The same hold for the … specific regulation of mobile telephone markets. The social welfare loss that would arise from such regulations are estimated …

A mandatory open-network-provision (ONP) by dominant firms is the appropriate government regulation in the presence of … network externalities. For basic telephone services and online services, a permanent ONP regulation seems indispensable …, whereas telecommunication networks only require transitional ONP regulation as long as public or privatized PTTs dispose of a …

The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the …

This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a … repeating ARGARCH model, I compare the effect of three types of regulation which are categorized based on the addressed subject …, i.e. cross-market, country-specific and company-specific regulation. While standard event study approaches are a special …

Frage, wie sich die Telekommunikationsmärkte in der Zukunft entwickeln werden und welche Rolle die Regulierung in diesem … question arises how telecommunications markets of the future will develop and what role regulation ought to have in this …