nondiscrimination regulation that forces the ISP to provide an equal quality upgrade to both CPs, however, can reduce the ISP …

the same time, we model an incumbent's decision problem under a threat of regulation in a game-theoretical context. The … decision whether to invest or not depends on the probability of regulation and its assumed impact on investment returns … best set. This price is below a non-regulated profit maximising price, since the incumbent tries to circumvent regulation …

Electricity distribution operators are regulated as monopolies around the world. Incentive regulation is further … applied to relate their allowed revenues (revenue cap) to cost efficiency and investment. Incentive regulation varies cross … distributors by incentive regulation. Using the long time series data, we evaluated the impact of the Norwegian regulation regimes …

regulation and recently imposed fiber access regulations. Our main finding is that more stringent access regulations for both the …

This paper empirically investigates the connection between corruption and crime. Such linkage has been often … underestimated because corruption has been often analyzed as a white-collar crime. In fact it is not characterized by violence …. Recently a theoretical connection has been suggested to highlight that corruption and crime can be considered strategic …

-market effects come about and to assess their policy relevance. The analytic strategy of this paper relies upon the stochastic real …