Cost and Benefits from Infrastructure Competition : Estimating Welfare Effects from Broadband Access Competition

Arbeitspapier

Competition between parallel infrastructures incorporates opposing welfare effects. The gain from reduced deadweight loss might be out- weighed by the inefficient duplication of an existing infrastructure. Using data from broadband internet access for Western Europe 2000-2004, this paper investigates which effect prevails empirically. Infrastructure competition between DSL and cable TV had a significant and positive impact on the broadband penetration. Comparing the additional social surplus attributable to cable competition with the cable investments, we conclude that infrastructure competition has not been welfare enhancing. A theoretical model is provided, formalizing why the effect of competition on penetration might be limited.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods ; No. 2005/1

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Telecommunications ; Monopoly; Monopolization Strategies ; Economics of Regulation ; Regulated Industries and Administrative Law ; Information and Internet Services; Computer Software
• Thema: Infrastructure Competition ; Service Competition ; Broadband ; Internet ; Cable TV ; DSL ; Breitbandkommunikation ; Netzzugang ; Wettbewerb ; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse ; Wohlfahrtseffekt ; Theorie

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Höffler, Felix
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2005

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19899
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 20.09.2024, 08:24 MESZ