This document (of 362 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable exploring the regulatory and competition … publication includes submissions from 16 OECD member countries describing in detail the nature of postal regulation applying in … the sector and the competition issues that have arisen. The document also includes a background paper prepared by the OECD …

-evolution of regulation. But there is hardly any discussion in academia or in practice about the consequences for regulation …. Relevant questions are: Which parts of current regulation will become redundant? Is there additional regulation needed due to … intermodal competition and growing convergence between postal and telecommunications services on regulatory institutions and …

effect of infrastructure-based competition between xDSL broadband and cable-TV broadband subscriptions on investments. We use …

2003 to 2012. We examine the impact of service- and facility-based competition on firm-level investment as well as the … estimation techniques which allows us to account for various sources of endogeneity. We find that facility-based competition … decisions are strategic complements. Moreover, we find that intermodal competition in terms of fixed-mobile substitution exerts …

(with price and quantity competition) and optimal regulation that involves an informational externality to the competitors …We study the regulation of a firm which supplies a regulated service while also operating in a competitive, unregulated …. Although joint conduct of the activities generates scope economies, it also entails private information, so that regulation is …

effect of infrastructure-based competition between xDSL broadband and cable-TV broadband subscriptions on investments. We use …