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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
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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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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Network Neutrality and Congestion Sensitive Content Providers: Implications for Service Innovation, Broadband Investment and Regulation
Kraemer, Jan; Wiewiorra, Lukas - NET Institute - 2010
We consider a two-sided market model with a monopolistic Internet Service Provider (ISP), network congestion sensitive content providers (CPs), and Internet customers in order to study the impact of Quality-of-Service (QoS) tiering on service innovation, broadband investments, and welfare in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673514
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Broadband Investment and the Threat of Regulation: Preventing Monopoly Exploitation or Infrastructure Construction?
Blum, Ulrich; Growitsch, Christian; Krap, Niels - In: Review of Network Economics 6 (2007) 3, pp. 342-354
influence both the investment decision and the investor's price via her signals on regulation probability and price. …
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Investment and revenue cap under incentive regulation : the case study of the Norwegian electricity distributors
Zhang, Dengjun; Xie, Jinghua - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-11
applied to relate their allowed revenues (revenue cap) to cost efficiency and investment. Incentive regulation varies cross … on firms’ investment. The panel data model includes common time-varying factors to control firm heterogeneity. The cross …-section dependence test is further employed to test the relationship between investment and revenue cap in different regulation regimes …
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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 … strategic effects underlying infrastructure investment decisions. At the same time we explicitly model the structural dynamics … of broadband investment by means of a flexible accelerator model. The empirical specification employs dynamic panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300640
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The impact of alternative public policies on the deployment of new communications infrastructure : a survey
Briglauer, Wolfgang; Frübing, Stefan; Vogelsang, Ingo - 2015
new fiber-based communications infrastructure. Since such investment is expected to induce substantial positive … implementation and competitive market structures including allowance of co-investment models, and iii) public subsidies to cover non …, where only monopoly structure or co-investment models lead to private investment. Deregulatory policies might be preferable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462525
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Regulation and investment incentives in electricity distribution : an empirical assessment
Cullmann, Astrid; Nieswand, Maria - 2015
We analyze the effects of an incentive based regulatory scheme with revenue caps on the investment behaviors and …'s implementation of incentive regulation in 2009 has a negative impact on total investment, and that firms increase their investments … constraints used to determine the revenue caps influence the distribution companies' investment decisions. We also note that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373911
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Regulation and Investment Incentives in Electricity Distribution : An Empirical Assessment
Cullmann, Astrid - 2015
We analyze the effects of an incentive based regulatory scheme with revenue caps on the investment behaviors and …'s implementation of incentive regulation in 2009 has a negative impact on total investment, and that firms increase their investments … constraints used to determine the revenue caps influence the distribution companies' investment decisions. We also note that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013432