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How to provide access to next generation networks? : the effect of risk allocation on investment and cooperation incentives
Bender, Christian M. - 2011 - This Version: December 1, 2011
intensive. -- Next Generation Access Networks ; investment ; access regulation ; cooperation … asymmetric risk allocation not only increases the chances of cooperation but lowers the risk of overinvestment. For homogeneous … goods, a symmetric risk allocation is superior as it ensures sufficient investment incentives even if competition is very …
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The Welfare Effects of Mobile Termination Rate Regulation in Asymmetric Oligopolies : The Case of Spain
Hurkens, Sjaak - 2011
We examine the effects of mobile termination rate regulation in asymmetric oligopolies. We do this by extending existing models of asymmetric duopoly and symmetric oligopoly where consumer expectations about market shares are passive. We first calibrate product differentiation parameters using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118918
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Regulating Prices for Shifting between Service Providers
Galbi, Douglas A. - 2001
This paper considers how to regulate the price that an access provider charges for shifting customers between different service providers. In determining regulated prices, cost is typically the focus of discussion. Debate revolves around how to determine what are relevant costs (used and useful?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014166946
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Regulating Prices for Shifting between Service Providers
Galbi, Douglas A. - 2000
The price that a regulated access provider charges for shifting customers between service providers has significant welfare implications. Typical regulatory approaches to pricing, such as pricing based on fully allocated cost or incremental cost, ignore the characteristics of consumer demand. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014167188
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Unbundling the incumbent and entry into fiber : evidence from France
Bourreau, Marc; Grzybowski, Lukasz; Hasbi, Maude - 2018
We use panel data on 36,104 municipalities in metropolitan France over the period 2010-2014 to estimate two models of entry into local markets by: (i) alternative operators using wholesale access to the legacy copper network via local loop unbundling (LLU), and (ii) the incumbent and two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011840765
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International Mobile Roaming : Competition, Economics and Regulation
Sutherland, Ewan - 2013
International mobile roaming has been subject to market interventions since the 1990s, first requiring operators to be provide customers with roaming, then trying to limit the increasing prices, that were seemingly immune to the effects of competition. The European Commission, in trying to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013094663
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Coexistence of service- and facility-based competition : the relevance of access prices for "make-or-buy"-decisions
Bender, Christian M.; Goetz, Georg - 2011 - This Version: February 2011
the entrant's investment decision. While investment lowers marginal costs in regions with facility-based entry, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008902896
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Coexistence of service- and facility-based competition : the relevance of access prices for "make-or-buy"-decisions
Bendery, Christian M.; Goetz, Georg - 2011 - This version: September 2011
the entrant's investment decision. While investment lowers marginal costs in regions with facility-based entry, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011526221
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Interconnection and prioritization
Baake, Pio; Sudaric, Slobodan - 2016
superior to a regime without prioritization (network neutrality) and yields higher incentives for investment in network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574872
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Investment in quality upgrade and regulation of the Internet
Baranes, Edmond; Cuong Hung Vuong - 2020
This paper studies the investment decision by a monopolistic internet service provider (ISP) in different regulatory ….s investment incentive and social welfare. Furthermore, the investment level is higher if the regulated ISP is allowed to charge … the CPs. Finally, a socially optimal investment can be opposite to the ISP's choice when the contents are enough …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012158085