, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focuses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New … specific view of NIE at industrial organization, antitrust and regulation, discusses three current issues - the European policy …

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We examine incentives of bottleneck facility holders to manipulate access charge accounting in free entry downstream … industry ; access charge ; manipulation of accounting ; regulation …

Under ex ante access regulation entrants often claim that access fees are excessive. I show that this is only the case … if further entry is admitted. If the entrant is protected from further entry it would agree with the incumbent upon a … strictly positive access fee which may exceed the efficient level. Ex post regulation facilitates this type of collusion and …