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Facility- and service-based competition and investment in fixed broadband networks : lessons from a decade of access regulations in the European Union member states
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Gugler, Klaus; Haxhimusa, Adhurim - 2015
2003 to 2012. We examine the impact of service- and facility-based competition on firm-level investment as well as the …, service-based competition exerts a negative impact on entrants' investment. Our results thus also provide relevant policy … strategic effects underlying infrastructure investment decisions. At the same time we explicitly model the structural dynamics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300640
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Facility- and Service-Based Competition and Investment in Fixed Broadband Networks : Lessons from a Decade of Access Regulations in the European Union Member States
Briglauer, Wolfgang - 2015
2003 to 2012. We examine the impact of service- and facility- based competition on firm-level investment as well as the …,service-based competition exerts a negative impact on entrants' investment. Our results thus also provide relevant policy guidance on the role … strategic effects underlying infrastructure investment decisions. At the same time we explicitly model the structural dynamics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017998
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Competition and investment in telecommunications: Does competition have the same impact on investment by private and state-owned firms?
Lestage, Romain; Flacher, David; Kim, Yeonbae; Kim, Jihwan - In: Information Economics and Policy 25 (2013) 1, pp. 41-50
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010666201
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Access-Based Competition and Investment in Mobile Network Markets - Evidence from Germany and Spain
Frank, Niels; Kleczka, Mitja; Shtjefanaku, Erion - 2023
claimed that such regulation might lower investment incentives of MNOs, this assertion has not yet been assessed by …This article examines the effect of access obligation on mobile network investment. Access obligation is a form of … mobile network investment in Germany, where access obligation had been implemented for the 3G technology (but not for 4G and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346887
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Network Neutrality under ISP duopoly: on the ability to assign capacity
Brito, Duarte; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, João - Centro de Estudos e Formação Avançada em Gestão e … - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699749
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Network Neutrality and Congestion Sensitive Content Providers: Implications for Service Innovation, Broadband Investment and Regulation
Kraemer, Jan; Wiewiorra, Lukas - NET Institute - 2010
, depending on the competition-elasticity of CPs' revenues. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673514
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Incentives to Invest and to Give Access to Non-Regulated Next Generation Networks
Brito, Duarte; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, João - NET Institute - 2008
We analyze the incentives of a telecommunications incumbent to invest and give access to a downstream entrant to a next generation network. We model the industry as a duopoly, where a vertically integrated incumbent and a downstream entrant, that requires access to the incumbent's network,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622682
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Can Two-Part Tariffs Promote Efficient Investment on Next Generation Networks?
Brito, Duarte; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, João - Autoridade de Concorrência, Government of Portugal - 2008
We analyze if two-part access tariffs solve the dynamic consistency problem of the regulation of Next Generation … investment cost is low, the regulator can induce investment when he cannot commit to a policy. Second, we show that in this case …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005115563
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Incentives to Invest and to Give Access to Non-Regulated Next Generation Networks
Brito, Duarte; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, João - Autoridade de Concorrência, Government of Portugal - 2008
We analyze the incentives of a telecommunications incumbent to invest and give access to a downstream entrant to a next generation network, NGN. We model the industry as a duopoly, where a vertically integrated incumbent and a downstream entrant, that requires access to the incumbent's network,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005115567
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Investment, dynamic consistency and the sectoral regulator's obective
Brito, Duarte; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, João - 2011
overcoming the dynamic consistency problem of regulatory policy towards investment. We model the industry as a regulated duopoly … retailer needs access to the input produced by the wholesaler to operate. The incumbent can make an investment that improves … for which it is possible to induce socially desirable investment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307446