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Regulation of an Open Access Essential Facility

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  • AXEL GAUTIER
  • MANIPUSHPAK MITRA

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A vertically integrated firm owns an essential input and operates on the downstream market. There is a potential entrant in the downstream market. Both firms use the same essential input. The regulator's objectives are (i) to ensure financing of the essential input and (ii) to generate competition in the downstream market. The regulatory mechanism grants non‐discriminatory access of the essential facility to the entrant provided it pays a two‐part tariff to the incumbent. The optimal mechanism generates inefficient entry. The inefficient entry captures the trade‐off between market efficiency and infrastructure financing resulting from incomplete information and non‐discriminatory access.

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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.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:econom:v:75:y:2008:i:300:p:662-682
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2007.00638.x
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    JEL classification:

    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
    • 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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