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Regulation of an Open Access Essential Facility

Gautier, Axel; Mitra, Manipushpak - 2007

In this paper we consider the problem of regulating an open access essential facility. A vertically integrated firm owns an essential input and operates on the downstream market under the roof of a regulatory mechanism. There is a potential entrant in the downstream market. Both competitors use...

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Two-Part Access Pricing and Imperfect Competition

Valletti, Tommaso M. - 2003

This paper considers a vertically separated industry with an upstream monopolist who supplies an essential input to two downstream Cournot firms. This situation is relevant to a number of sectors, including the telecommunications industry where trunk operators must have access to the local...

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Optimal Regulation of Network Expansion

Willems, Bert; Zwart, Gijsbert - 2018

We model the regulation of irreversible capacity expansion by a firm with private information about capacity costs …

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The Losing Case for Special Access Regulation

Downes, Larry - 2016

In 1999, the FCC largely deregulated middle-mile or "special access" enterprise communications services, resulting in explosive growth of new competitors using new technologies, including cable, fiber-optics, and high-speed Ethernet loops. But in recent years the agency has expressed increased...

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Chapter 16 Regulation of Natural Monopoly

Joskow, Paul L. - In: Handbook of law and economics : volume 2, (pp. 1227-1348). 2007

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and empirical literature on the regulation of natural … institutions, price regulation with full information, price regulation with imperfect and asymmetric information, and topics on the … measurement of the effects of price and entry regulation in practice. The chapter also discusses the literature on network access …

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Internet Regulation : Monopolistic Bottlenecks in Internet Service Markets?

Vanberg, Margit A. - 2014

The paper focuses on the cost characteristics of Internet technology and on the question whether there are monopolistic bottlenecks in Internet services which justify regulatory intervention into the market. The analysis is prompted by a discussion which followed the MCI and Worldcom merger in...

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Net Neutrality or Minimum Quality Standards : Network Effects vs. Market Power Justifications

Brennan, Tim - 2014

-based discrimination. Opponents find such regulation premature or unnecessary, noting that uniform treatment precludes higher quality …

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Regulated Versus Negotiated Access Pricing in Vertically Separated Railway Systems : Online Appendix

Besanko, David - 2019

This paper studies access pricing under three regimes: regulated access (VSR), negotiated access with discriminatory pricing (VSD) and negotiated access with non-discriminatory pricing (VSN). We compare each regime along three metrics: network quality, consumer surplus, and social welfare. To do...

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Regulation of Europe's network industries : the perspective of the new economic theory of federalism

Bickenbach, Frank - 2000

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Economic replicability tests for next-generation access networks

Jaunaux, Laure; Lebourges, Marc - 2013

foreclose copper-based efficient entrants. The tests we propose surpass the limits of the “ladder of investment” theory by …

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