The Digital Agenda for Europe sets out clear goals for providing high speed broadband to all its residents, but leaves … dynamics of fixed broadband markets in two neighboring regions: Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, and the Netherlands … technology to offer broadband on the former analogue television network. However, in the race towards realizing the Digital …

The Digital Agenda for Europe sets out clear goals for providing high speed broadband to all its residents, but leaves … dynamics of fixed broadband markets in two neighboring regions: Flanders, the northern part of Belgium, and the Netherlands … technology to offer broadband on the former analogue television network. However, in the race towards realizing the Digital …

In this paper, we evaluate the efficiency of the French State aid plan for broadband deployment, the Plan France Très … target areas with market failures. We estimate a structural model of fiber entry using a rich dataset on fiber deployment for … subsidies were granted to municipalities where private entry would not have occurred. Overall, we estimate the cost of …

stimulates market entry and broadband penetration and/or leads to an increase in broadband quality. In contrast to what is …Under an open access policy, incumbent broadband providers in all EU countries are required to let new market entrants … competition among all broadband providers, and is strongly recommended in markets where the prohibitively high cost of setting up …

broadband infrastructure in rural areas of Germany. Such subsidies are subject to state aid control by the European Commission …. In this study, we do not only analyse whether the aid was effective in solving a market failure – low broadband coverage … aid significantly increased broadband coverage. More importantly, we find that the number of internet providers has …

broadband infrastructure in rural areas of Germany. Such subsidies are subject to state aid control by the European Commission …. In this study, we do not only analyse whether the aid was effective in solving a market failure – low broadband coverage … aid significantly increased broadband coverage. More importantly, we find that the number of internet providers has …

In this paper, we evaluate the efficiency of the French State aid plan for broadband deployment, the Plan France Très … target areas with market failures. We estimate a structural model of fiber entry using a rich dataset on fiber deployment for … subsidies were granted to municipalities where private entry would not have occurred. Overall, we estimate the cost of …

We extend Bresnahan and Reiss’s (1991) model of local oligopoly to allow firm entry and exit over time. In our … framework, entrants have to incur sunk costs in order to enter a market. After becoming incumbents, they disregard these entry …’s framework generates unreasonable variation in firms’ competitive conduct over time. This variation disappears when entry costs …