This paper compares two types of access pricing: a two-part tariff where the fixed part aims to cover (part of) the network's fixed cost and the variable part covers the network's usage costs and a single tariff where both the usage and (part of) the infrastructure costs are covered by a per-unit access charge. It compares how the regulator trades-off the degree of competition induced by the access charges and the network financing.
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Paper provided by Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) in its series CORE Discussion Papers with number
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Find related papers by JEL classification: L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
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Axel Gautier & Manipushpak Mitra, 2008.
"Regulation of an Open Access Essential Facility,"
Economica,
London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 75(300), pages 662-682, November.
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