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Infrastructure Quality in Deregulated Industries: Is there an Underinvestment Problem?

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Stefan Buehler () (Socioeconomic Institute, University of Zurich)
Armin Schmutzler () (Socioeconomic Institute, University of Zurich)
Men-Andri Benz () (Institute for Strategy and Business Economics, University of Zurich)

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Abstract

We investigate how various institutional settings affect a network provider’s incentives to invest in infrastructure quality. Under reasonable assumptions on demand, investment incentives turn out to be smaller under vertical separation than under vertical integration, though we also provide counter-examples. The introduction of downstream competition for the market can sometimes improve incentives. With suitable non-linear access prices investment incentives under separation become identical to those under integration.

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Paper provided by University of Zurich, Socioeconomic Institute in its series Working Papers with number 0209.

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Date of creation: Aug 2002
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Publication status: Published in Journal of Industrial Organization 22(2), 2004, pages 253-267
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Keywords: investment incentives; networks; quality; vertical externality.;

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