Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/27843 
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Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
HfB - Working Paper Series No. 75
Publisher: 
HfB - Business School of Finance & Management, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
The working report looks at the actual situation of the German broadband cable market in the context of merger control and sector specific regulation. A crucial problem in dealing with the cable market whether in antitrust cases or in the regulatory context is the precise assessment of the economic conditions, especially the arguable question if the network has still characteristics of a natural monopoly still a common argument in network industries. The report therefore uses the basic concept of the disaggregated identification of network-specific market power. The unique structure of the German broadband cable industry with its horizontal and vertical separation of the distribution network shows a highly contestable market with elements of competitive franchise bidding. On the other hand the cable market is suffering from that separation due to problems of inefficiency, especially in times of dynamic changes in communications with powerful intermodal competitors like Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG) with an innovative IPTV infrastructure. To this date these market characteristics have been ignored.
Subjects: 
Bottleneck
broadband cable
consumer surplus approach
contestable markets
disaggregated approach
efficiency analysis
essential facility
franchise bidding
market definition
market dominance
market power
merger control
network effects
open field approach
regulation
remedies and conditions
telecommunication networks
total welfare standard
JEL: 
K19
K22
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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