We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications … accommodates: different investment incentives for incumbents and entrants; a strategic interaction of entrants' and incumbents … investment. Thus promoting market entry by means of regulated access undermines incentives to invest in facilities …

This paper studies the incentives of an unregulated monopolist to undertake the socially optimal investment in NGA … networks when it takes into account the fact that the NGA deployment is a two-dimensional investment decision concerning both … socially optimal investment decisions result in a geographically differentiated NGA deployment implying that different quality …

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … of countries' political institutions. We estimate the effect of political institutions on the diffusion of three … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of …

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … of countries' political institutions. We estimate the effect of political institutions on the diffusion of three … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of …

We provide evidence of an inherent trade-off between access regulation and investment incentives in telecommunications … regulated access. -- Telecommunications ; access regulation ; unbundling ; investment … accommodates: different investment incentives for incumbents and entrants; a strategic interaction of entrants' and incumbents …