IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/qsh/wpaper/33659.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Incitations à l'entrée et incitations aux investissements dans le secteur des télécoms

Author

Listed:
  • M. Bourreau
  • P. Dogan
  • M. Manant

Abstract

The ladder of investment is a regulatorymechanism proposed by Cave [2006], which has been widely adopted by national regulatory authorities in Europe in the telecommunications sector to promote entry ofefficient competitors to the incumbent operators. The idea is to propose successively different levels of access to new entrants (the "rungs" of the ladder) and to provideentrants with incentives to climb the ladder by setting an access charge increasing over time or by leaving incumbents free to set the access price (i.e., by withdrawingaccess obligations). The ladder of investment is claimed to introduce complementarities between service-based and facilitybased competition, which were previouslyconsidered alternative forms of competition. Despite the strong interest of regulators for this approach concept, its economic foundations have not been clearly stated.In this paper, we present the positions of European regulators and telecom operators about the ladder of investment. We then propose a critical analysis of this method ofregulation, using a review of the relevant literature. We show the ladder of investment approach is imperfectly founded from an economic point of view.
(This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)

Suggested Citation

  • M. Bourreau & P. Dogan & M. Manant, "undated". "Incitations à l'entrée et incitations aux investissements dans le secteur des télécoms," Working Paper 33659, Harvard University OpenScholar.
  • Handle: RePEc:qsh:wpaper:33659
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://scholar.harvard.edu/pdogan/node/33659
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ben Dkhil, Inès, 2014. "Regulation and Investment in Telecom Network Infrastructure Facilities: The Recent Developments and Debates," MPRA Paper 72910, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 02 Feb 2015.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:qsh:wpaper:33659. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Richard Brandon (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cbrssus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.