and welfare are compared under welfare maximisation, network monopoly and network monopoly with competition over one part … of the network. Given that inducing actual competition may bring disbenefits such as cost duplication and co …

, competition and the reform of state regulation are key themes of donor aid programmes, notably those of the World Bank. This paper … provides an econometric assessment of the effects of privatisation, competition and regulation on the performance of the … restructuring to introduce private capital and increase competition. This has been accompanied by the introduction of new regulatory …

market to be competitive in Europe in absence of ex ante regulation of wholesale network access. This is done by two methods … European operators. Both methods arrive to the same conclusions: a) network economics allow competition in most geographic … the degree of potential competition. …

This document (of 351 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable on regulation and competition issues … broadcasting, approaches to regulation of broadcasting and highlighting the features of the industry which give rise to competition … member countries describing in detail the regulatory regime for broadcasting and some of the competition policy issues which …

In a companion note (Antitrust vs. Sector-specific Regulation in Telecom: What Works Best?), we argued that while the … and institutions as instruments of economic regulation, some sector-specific rules and specialized implementing … interconnection. In the present note, we look in more details at the regulation of interconnection drawing from the experience of New …

-specific regulation and competition law. In this paper, we explore how these two approaches have been used to facilitate the arrival of …European Community law has played a pivotal role in opening to competition economic sectors previously under the … competition. In this paper, we will focus on the first category of market failures, i.e. the bottlenecks that may prevent …

competition in an abstract, sterile way. To illustrate the dangers of using such an abstract approach to the key issue of ILEC … services as a case study, wherein the Commission abandoned its own general framework for competition analysis in favor of using … abstract notions of potential competition. As demonstrated herein, the Commission's deregulatory scheme for Special Access has …

competition in local telephony, and that somehow the federal courts are complicit in this failure. It begins by highlighting the … continued importance of local wireline infrastructure and how little competition exists. Moving to the 1996 Act's network …

of competition law for digital platforms or it can evolve into a new field of EU law, detached from competition law. The … DMA’s ultimate trajectory will depend on the legal characterization given to the DMA. Is it a special competition law … regime or an original instrument distinct from competition law? This paper lays the groundwork for characterizing the DMA by …