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Can Access Price Indexation Promote Efficient Investment in Next Generation Networks?

Henriques, David - 2013

The existing literature on access price and investment has pointed out that networks underinvest under a regime of mandatory access provision with a fixed access price per end-user. In this paper we propose a new access pricing rule, the indexation approach, i.e., the access price, per end-user,...

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Interconnection in Network Industries

Carter, Michael; Wright, Julian - 2001

Recent deregulation of telecommunications in the U.S. and elsewhere has highlighted the importance of interconnection in network industries. In this paper, we analyze interconnection in a deregulated network where the participants compete in the final retail market. We consider both the case of...

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Price Discrimination, Two-Sided Markets, and Net Neutrality Regulation

Weisman, Dennis - 2013

In an October 22, 2009 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the Federal Communications Commission posed a number of questions regarding the merits of price discrimination given the two-sided structure of broadband markets. The law and economics literature finds that price discrimination is...

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Electronic communications regulation in Europe : an overview of past and future problems

Parcu, Pier Luigi; Silvestri, Virginia - 2013

For many years electronic communications has been one of the most important areas of policy intervention for the European Union. Liberalisation and privatisation of the telecommunications industry have been very important topics of the policy debate in the two decades starting from 1990 to 2010....

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The National Regulatory Structure Against the Background of the European Regulatory System

Veith, Tobias - 2010

. Moreover, national regulators become more independent, and former national regulation tasks are partially shifted to the pan …

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Antitrust vs. Sector Specific Regulation in Telecom : A Close Look at Interconnection

Geradin, Damien; Neto, Isabel; Kerf, Michel - 2013

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 …

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