structure with one firm choosing higher investments. While access regulation imposed on the dominant firm leads to lower prices … network effects leading to potentially increased demand, regulation can substantially lower aggregate social welfare …

, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focuses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New … specific view of NIE at industrial organization, antitrust and regulation, discusses three current issues – the European policy …

productivity e ects of changing industry structure, ownership structure and regulation with respect to barriers to entry and access …

's implementation of incentive regulation in 2009 has a negative impact on total investment, and that firms increase their investments … with the German data. The results show that investments increase after incentive regulation, and that the institutional … specific heterogeneity. It should further include all institutional aspects of incentive regulation to design incentives that …

settings. We find that incentive regulation may perform better than cost-based regulation but only when appropriate weights are …. Thus, our analysis provides motivation for further research in order to characterize optimal regulation for transmission …

with the welfare-maximum benchmark and cases of Transco with cost-plus regulation and no regulation. In all tested cases …