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Broadband Investment and the Threat of Regulation: Preventing Monopoly Exploitation or Infrastructure Construction?

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Ulrich Blum (Halle Institute for Economic Research)
Christian Growitsch (Scientific Institute for Infrastructure and Communication Services WIK)
Niels Krap () (Halle Institute for Economic Research)

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Abstract

Recently, investments in new generation networks in Germany have been curtailed, since potential investors required this new network be unregulated. To develop a regulator's strategy that allows investments to occur but prevents monopolistic prices, we model an investor's decision problem under a threat of regulation. We show that the mere threat of a regulator's intervention may prevent supernormal profits without actual price regulation. The regulator, on the other hand, can influence both the investment decision and the investor's price via her signals on regulation probability and price.

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Article provided by Concept Economics in its journal Review of Network Economics.

Volume (Year): 6 (2007)
Issue (Month): 3 (September)
Pages: 342-354
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Keywords: Regulation; investment; telecommunication; network industries; next generation networks.;

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