mobile telecommunications industry. Using firm level panel data and an instrumental variable estimation it finds an inverted …This paper empirically assesses the impact of the intensity of competition on investment in new technologies within the …-U relationship between competition intensity and investment. The intermediate level of competition intensity that maximizes …

investment in telecommunications, a framework was developed to understand the factors that determine investments in telecom … cost. The results show that investments in the telecommunications industry are positively dependent on liberalization that … cost of investing in a country are important factors for investments allocation in mobile telecommunications industry among …

, fiber) access charge that maximizes the incumbent's profit after the investment. On the contrary, when the regulator is free … decision of the incumbent to undertake the investment in fiber deployment is not only affected by its profit after the … investment, but also by the opportunity cost of the investment. This cost is reflected by the profits that the incumbent earns …

Fixed telephony has long been a fundamentally important market for European telecommunications operators. The … of a dominant firm. A system of simultaneous equations is developed and direct estimation of the incumbent's residual …