• The broadband access market : competition, uniform pricing and geographical coverage 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle (Working paper, Working paper, 2000-12)
      This paper analyzes some technological and political aspects of the market for broadband access. Broadband access is the last mile of the telecommunication network, and it is an essential component in order to offer broadband ...
    • Competition between content distributors in two-sided markets 

      Bergh, Harald Nygård; Kind, Hans Jarle; Reme, Bjørn-Atle; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper;11/12, Working paper, 2012-05)
      We analyze strategic interactions between two competing distributors of an independent TV channel. Consistent with most of the relevant markets, we assume that the distributors set end-user prices while the TV channel sets ...
    • Employing endogenous access pricing to enhance incentives for efficient upstream operation 

      Fjell, Kenneth; Pal, Debashis; Sappington, David E.M. (Working paper;09/13, Working paper, 2013-01)
      Endogenous access pricing (ENAP) is an alternative to the more traditional form of access pricing that sets the access price to reflect the regulator’s estimate of the supplier’s average cost of providing access. Under ...
    • International complementarities in the internet : should domestic local access prices be regulated? 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Working Paper, Working paper, 2001-10)
      The Internet can be seen as the convergence of different industries like telecommunication, software, and media into an international oligopoly, where the end-user is offered a bundle consisting of complementary products ...
    • Investment mechanism design and public policy for a natural gas grid 

      Sannarnes, Jan Gaute (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-11)
      This paper discusses how the government can design investment mechanisms to induce a socially optimal capacity increase in a gas grid that is owned by a syndicate of gas producers. Designing the investment mechanisms, the ...
    • Network ownership and optimal tariffs for natural gas transport 

      Hagen, Kåre Petter; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sannarnes, Jan Gaute (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-11)
      This paper addresses the issue of national optimal tariffs for transportation of natural gas in a setting where national gas production in its entirety is exported to end-user markets abroad. In a situation where the ...
    • Optimal tariff and ownership structure for a natural gas transportation network 

      Sannarnes, Jan Gaute (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-11)
      This paper discusses how the government can set transportation tariffs to induce socially optimal transportation of natural gas in a network owned by a syndicate of gas producers. In a setting where the gas is exported to ...
    • Strategic regulation policy in the internet 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Working Paper, Working paper, 2004-07)
      Some countries are net importers while others are net exporters of global backbone access, content and other Internet services. At the same time, input components like local access are non-traded. This paper analyzes a ...
    • Welfare effects of one-sided regulation when internationally traded complements are unregulated 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-10)
      We consider the effects of a one-sided price regulation of one of two complementary inputs. The provider of the regulated component is a domestic firm, while the provider of the other component is a foreign firm. This ...