implementation and competitive market structures including allowance of co-investment models, and iii) public subsidies to cover non …Our survey reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on all alternative policies to promote the deployment of … new fiber-based communications infrastructure. Since such investment is expected to induce substantial positive …

, competition and the reform of state regulation are key themes of donor aid programmes, notably those of the World Bank. This paper … provides an econometric assessment of the effects of privatisation, competition and regulation on the performance of the … restructuring to introduce private capital and increase competition. This has been accompanied by the introduction of new regulatory …

in various sectors of the Danish economy. It looks at a number of indicators of the strength of competition — including … price levels, industrial concentration and product market regulation — and it discusses the appropriateness of the … competition legislation framework. The paper then focuses on the large public sector, which has been slow to open up to …

Vigorous product market competition plays a central role in bolstering productivity growth. Sweden has strengthened … competition legislation and deregulated a number of sectors, including electricity, telecommunications and parts of transport …, over the past 10 to 15 years. This paper examines the current state of product market competition and proposes further …

, competition and the reform of state regulation are key themes of donor aid programmes, notably those of the World Bank. This paper … provides an econometric assessment of the effects of privatisation, competition and regulation on the performance of the … restructuring to introduce private capital and increase competition. This has been accompanied by the introduction of new regulatory …

The liberalization of telecommunications is largely based on the premise that increasing competition will encourage … investment. The hypothesis that liberalization promotes investment has received the most empirical support in recent research …. However, a key question that has been largely ignored in the literature is whether competition has the same impact on …

We analyze the impact of network neutrality regulation on: (i) competition between CPs, and on (ii) ISPs. incentives to … advertising revenues. We further show that the impact of network neutrality regulation on the investment in the quality of network … invest. We consider both competition between ISPs and between CPs and show that, if ISPs can o¤er network services of …

influence both the investment decision and the investor's price via her signals on regulation probability and price. … monopolistic prices, we model an investor's decision problem under a threat of regulation. We show that the mere threat of a … regulator's intervention may prevent supernormal profits without actual price regulation. The regulator, on the other hand, can …

became applicable from 2003. It has three primary objectives: (1) to promote competition; (2) to develop the single market … 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 …