Third-party access to infrastructure: the case of the Mt Newman rail line in the Pilbara.

Economic Papers - Economic Society of Australia | December 1, 2007| | Copyright

1 Introduction

It is often the case that a market is dominated by a single piece of infrastructure and some form of monopolistic power is conferred on the firm owning the infrastructure, both in the existing, as well as related, markets. This can occur to the extent that the firm exhibits quite marked pricing power or where it is uneconomic for other firms to duplicate the infrastructure.

To balance the rights of consumers with the infrastructure owner in such cases, Australia has developed a national system for third party access to key economic ...

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