Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/96569 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
ESMT Working Paper No. 09-003
Publisher: 
European School of Management and Technology (ESMT), Berlin
Abstract: 
This paper analyses how different types of access regulation to next generation networks affect investments and consumer welfare. The model consists of an investment stage with uncertain returns and subsequent quantity competition. The access price is a function of investment costs and the regulatory regime. A regime with fully distributed costs or a regulatory holiday induces highest investments, followed by risk-sharing and long-run-incremental cost regulation. Risk-sharing creates most consumer welfare, followed by regimes with fully distributed costs, long-run-incremental costs and regulatory holiday, respectively. Risk-sharing benefits consumers as it combines relatively high ex-ante investment incentives with strong ex-post competitive intensity.
Subjects: 
regulation
competition
telecommunications
broadband
strategic investment
JEL: 
L51
L96
L10
K23
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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