• Elasticity based pricing rules in telecommunications : a cautionary note 

      Fjell, Kenneth (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-01)
      To recover large common (sunk) costs, telecommunications operators are often recommended to follow an inverse elasticity based pricing; setting the highest markups for the services with the least elastic demand. This is ...
    • Managerial incentives and access price regulation 

      Foros, Øystein; Kind, Hans Jarle; Sørgard, Lars (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-10)
      Policy makers have identified the non-discrimination principle as a key instrument to regulate vertically integrated firms in control of upstream bottlenecks. Economists argue that the non-discrimination principle may ...
    • Product development in IT and telecommunications information acquisition strategies 

      Lund, Arne-Christian; Mæland, Jøril (Working paper, Working paper, 2007-10)
      Investment projects within information technology and telecommunication industries face high uncertainty with respect to future cash flows, especially due to technological innovations and changing markets. Competition among ...
    • Taking ABC to court : a research note on cost oriented access prices in Telecom 

      Bjørnenak, Trond; Fjell, Kenneth (Working Paper, Working paper, 2005-12)
      This paper investigates how and why Activity Based Costing (ABC) has been introduced to the cost based price regulation regime in the telecommunication sector. The study draws on empirical insight from a recent court case ...