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Regulation and Access Pricing with Asymmetric Information

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  • Gianni De Fraja

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We study in this paper whether the price charged to a competitor for the use of an essential input produced in conditions of natural monopoly should reflect only considerations of relative efficiency between the various potential suppliers. In a model that captures the technological conditions operating in industries such as telephony, gas, rail, where access to a distribution network is essential to the ability to compete, we show that this is not the case. Instead, the access price should be set `pro-competitively': it may be socially optimal to award production to a firm less efficient than the owner of the network.
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  • Gianni De Fraja, "undated". "Regulation and Access Pricing with Asymmetric Information," Discussion Papers 95/5, Department of Economics, University of York.
    • Handle: RePEc:yor:yorken:95/5
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    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation

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