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Designing Competition Policy for Telecommunications

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  • Robinson Glen O.

    (University of Virginia)

  • Weisman Dennis L.

    (Kansas State University)

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This paper explores the role of the essential facilities doctrine in circumscribing the scope of network sharing obligations in telecommunications. Among other things it argues that a proper application of the doctrine of essential facilities should recognize the prominence of dynamic over static efficiency in promoting consumer welfare. Regulators may be averse to recognizing these tradeoffs because unlike the behavior of prices the welfare losses from foregone innovation may be unobservable to the regulators' constituency. Moreover, an emphasis on dynamic efficiency requires the short-term regulator to take the "long view" - fostering the competitive process rather than emulating the competitive outcome.

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  • Robinson Glen O. & Weisman Dennis L., 2008. "Designing Competition Policy for Telecommunications," Review of Network Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 7(4), pages 1-38, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:bpj:rneart:v:7:y:2008:i:4:n:4
    DOI: 10.2202/1446-9022.1160
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    1. Crandall, Robert W. & Eisenach, Jeffrey A. & Ingraham, Allan T., 2013. "The long-run effects of copper-loop unbundling and the implications for fiber," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 37(4), pages 262-281.
    2. M. Burak Onemli & Joel Potter, 2014. "An empirical investigation of the stepping-stone hypothesis," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 34(4), pages 2220-2236.
    3. Dennis L. Weisman, 2019. "The power of regulatory regimes reexamined," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Springer, vol. 56(2), pages 125-148, December.
    4. Thomas Hazlett & Dennis Weisman, 2011. "Market Power in US Broadband Services," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 38(2), pages 151-171, March.
    5. David Sappington & Dennis Weisman, 2012. "Regulating regulators in transitionally competitive markets," Journal of Regulatory Economics, Springer, vol. 41(1), pages 19-40, February.
    6. Nadimi Soheil R. & Weisman Dennis L., 2020. "A Note on the Efficiency Gains from a Refusal to Deal in a Bertrand-Nash Framework," The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 20(4), pages 1-12, October.
    7. Weisman, Dennis L., 2021. "The (In)efficiency of the retail-minus rule," Utilities Policy, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).

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