minority outside shareholder. -- Network industries ; regulation ; vertical relations ; ownership ; corruption ; sabotage …We study an industry with a monopolistic bottleneck (e.g. a transmission network) supplying an essential input to … suggests that consumers may benefit most from legal unbundling with strong regulation and parts of ownership given to a …

Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which … give rise to new questions of access fee regulation. In this paper we consider a model with two types of asymmetry arising … from different entry timing, i.e. a larger reputation for the incumbent and lower cost of servicing for the entrant as a …

Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which … give rise to new questions of access fee regulation. In this paper we consider a model with two types of asymmetry arising … from different entry timing, i.e. a larger reputation for the incumbent and lower cost of servicing for the entrant as a …

entry. That is, we do not need to resort to learning, weak property rights or exogenous costs of entry to generate this …

We investigate the nature of the adverse selection problem in a market for adurable goodwhere trading and entry of new …

(off-net) networks is shown to restore competition. This regulation requires neither demand data nor information about call …We analyse competition between perfectly substitutable networks. Monopolization can be sustained in equilibrium by … asymmetric access prices whereby entry is deterred by a set of margin squeezes. A regulatory package consisting of (i) mandatory …

of the problem and can make access regulation unnecessary. For instance, inducing mobile operators to apply RPP instead …

We develop a model of competition between interconnected networks, with separate local and long-distance markets …, allowing for various degrees of symmetry between carriers. Assuming two part pricing, we show that effective competition can be … interconnected local networks want to agree on cost based interconnection charges, but that through competition for local market …