decision whether to invest or not depends on the probability of regulation and its assumed impact on investment returns … regulation. The regulator, on the other hand, an influence both investment decision and the incumbent's price via his signals on … regulation probability and price. These signals can be considered optimal, if they simultaneously allow investment and minimize …

influence both the investment decision and the investor's price via her signals on regulation probability and price. … monopolistic prices, we model an investor's decision problem under a threat of regulation. We show that the mere threat of a … regulator's intervention may prevent supernormal profits without actual price regulation. The regulator, on the other hand, can …

incentives to invest in network infrastructure. To this end, we develop a theoretical model explaining investment incentives by … regulation and recently imposed fiber access regulations. Our main finding is that more stringent access regulations for both the …

supposed to be high on the ADSL market because of already existing regulation. We assume that two types of operators are … access to them (OPf2). In our model, the level of investment is decided at stage 1 and the access price is decided at stage 2 …. At stage 3, OPf1 and OPf2 compete à la Cournot. This common framework allows us to show that the regulation defining …

nature of mobile telecommunication services as key element to explain why reductions of text messaging traffic have been so …

the incumbent, Telikom. Lack of investment and an unstable set of ownership arrangements have constrained Telikom from …

nature of mobile telecommunication services as key element to explain why reductions of text messaging traffic have been so …

authorities to access the big data held by operators could transform regulation by simplifying proof of bias or discrimination … should be possible to transform market regulation …

estimate the level of e-communications investment in the EU and to examine its main drivers as part of a contributio to the … provides a description of the process of collecting data on investment in physical infrastructure in the e …-communciations sector by country and by sub-sector. It also presents the collected data, showing a decline in overall investment between …