When Should an Incumbent Be Obliged to Share itsInfrastructure with an Entrant Under the GeneralCompetition Rules?
2005 (English)In: Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, ISSN 1566-1679, E-ISSN 1573-7012, Vol. 5, no 1, p. 5-26Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
According to the essential-facilities doctrine, competition law requires an infrastructural monopoly to provide access. Under the "Bronner criterion", proposed by the EC Court, the doctrine is only applicable when a symmetric infrastructural duopoly is non-viable. This paper uses a simple model to illustrate that, from a welfare point-of-view, the Bronner criterion may provide too little monopoly protection for the incumbent in high-risk new markets, while requiring too much investments from the entrant in low-risk mature markets.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2005. Vol. 5, no 1, p. 5-26
Keywords [en]
Access regulation; Antitrust; Bronner; Competition law; Infrastructure
National Category
Economics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-11613DOI: 10.1007/s10842-005-0990-7Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-17344366567OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-11613DiVA, id: diva2:444007
2011-09-272011-09-232017-12-08Bibliographically approved