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We examine how vertical separation affects the lobbying activities for the access charge of essential facilities. First, when investigating a model where the number of new entrants is fixed, we find that vertical separation either increases or decreases the access charge, and that this depends...
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We examine incentives of bottleneck facility holders to manipulate access charge accounting in free entry downstream markets. We consider the situation wherein one firm holds an upstream bottleneck facility and new entrants use it at the regulated price (access fee) to provide final products....
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Am 26. Februar 2007 hat die EU-Kommission ein beschleunigtes Vertragsverletzungsverfahren gegen Deutschland wegen der Einführung von angeblichen "Regulierungsferien" in dem jüngst novellierten Telekommunikationsgesetz (TKG) eröffnet. Die Kommission vermutet, dass die dort getroffene...
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I claim that the urgently needed telecommunications regulatory reform must rest on three specific principles or … integrity of the telecommunications networks in Canada. Third, the design of non predatory pricing rules (price floors) through … full cost sharing capable of fostering the emergence of a more competitive telecommunications industry, even if such non …
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We analyze a repeated setting of an asymmetric, differentiated telecommunications market with an incumbent and an …
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In this study we address the economic performance of ex ante regulation of the telecommunications industry and compare …
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This paper investigates the impacts of the current roaming rules on domestic competition and welfare. We consider a model for two countries in which each country has two operators that compete in the retail market for access services and also in the wholesale market for roaming. We first derive...
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Am 26. Februar 2007 hat die EU-Kommission ein beschleunigtes Vertragsverletzungsverfahren gegen Deutschland wegen der Einführung von angeblichen "Regulierungsferien" in dem jüngst novellierten Telekommunikationsgesetz (TKG) eröffnet. Die Kommission vermutet, dass die dort getroffene...
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Interconnection rates are a key variable in telecommunications markets. Every call that is placed must be terminated by …
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We study the impact of the access charges of copper and fiber unbundling on an incumbent's incentives to invest in fiber access networks. Once the fiber deployment is in place, the incumbent and the entrant compete for consumers in both copper and fiber markets. We show that when the regulator...
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