Purpose – This paper aims to explore the three basic roles that access price plays: the collection of opportunity cost; the redistribution of profit; and the tools of exploiting competitors. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the efficient component pricing rule. Findings –...

In the process of the worldwide globalization appear transnational companies that place their production and trade activities into various countries of the world. The determination of transfer pricing of transnational companies is a serious and in the Czech Republic until now little noticed...

We analyze the setting of access prices for a bottleneck facility where the facility owner also competes in the deregulated downstream market. We consider a continuum of market structures from Cournot to Bertrand. These market structures are fully characterized by a single parameter representing...