When Should an Incumbent be Obliged to Share its Infrastructure with an Entrant Under the General Competition Rules?

Mats Bergman ()

Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 2005, vol. 5, issue 1, 5-26

Abstract: 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. Copyright Springer Science Business Media, Inc. 2005

Keywords: infrastructure; access regulation; competition law; antitrust; bronner (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1007/s10842-005-0990-7

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