network effects leading to potentially increased demand, regulation can substantially lower aggregate social welfare … investment to build up its network. Assuming a skewed distribution of consumers, our model leads to an asymmetric market … structure with one firm choosing higher investments. While access regulation imposed on the dominant firm leads to lower prices …

by both high entry and high exit rates. …

-based competition, by fine-tuning access regulation, working as intended? What can one learn from the Dutch experience? As scale … to reassess the role of the government, on issues ranging from network neutrality to broadband penetration, universal … service, and security. The outcome of such an assessment could be incongruent with the blueprint of competition held on to by …