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Competition and Regulatory Policies for Interactive Broadband Networks

Sidak, J. Gregory; Crandall, Robert W. - 2009

Few phrases in public policy have become so overused so quickly as the information highway. Although it is unclear to many what that superhighway is or will be, this uncertainty has not prevented proposals to regulate the superhighway from being made. In this Article, we examine the economic...

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H.R. 22, the Postal Reform Act of 1997

Sidak, J. Gregory - 2009

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Competition in Broadband Provision and Its Implications for Regulatory Policy

Maldoom, Dan; Marsden, Richard; Sidak, J. Gregory; … - 2010

. Typically, new services are not subject to specific regulation, owing to the risk that this would discourage investment and … intervention to date, an equally valid response is to question the effectiveness of existing regulation. Both new entrants and … benefits for customers and reducing the need for regulation; to assess the impact of public policy on incentives to invest in …

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Network Access Pricing and Deregulation

Sidak, J. Gregory; Spulber, Daniel F. - 2009

The paper addresses the question of pricing access to the network facilities of an incumbent firm after deregulation. Network access pricing continues to be regulated in such industries as telecommunications, railroads, electric power and natural gas. We emphasize that access prices should be...

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The Empirical Case Against Asymmetric Regulation of Broadband Internet Access

Sidak, J. Gregory; Crandall, Robert W.; Singer, Hal J. - 2009

The United States has asymmetric regulation of the provision of broadband Internet access service. A cable television …) that offers digital subscriber line (DSL) service faces price regulation as well as the obligation to offer competitors the … services that compete with the ILEC's own retail offering to consumers. The social costs of asymmetric regulation are by now …

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Competition in Colombian Telecommunications

Sidak, J. Gregory - 2018

In November of 2015, the Colombian think tank Fedesarrollo published its report “Update on the Study of Competition in the Mobile Telephony Market in Colombia,” which purports to reveal a lack of competition in Colombian telecommunications. Fedesarrollo's report also offers policy...

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Governing the Postal Service

Sidak, J. Gregory - American Enterprise Institute

Six articles contribute to the attention on the U.S. Postal Service in response to advances in telecommunications and communications and new thinking about regulated industries.

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Protecting Competition from the Postal Monopoly

Sidak, J. Gregory; Spulber, Daniel - American Enterprise Institute

J. Gregory Sidak and Daniel F. Spulber examine the justifications for the publicly-protected postal monopoly and its public ownership and control.

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Protecting Competition from the Postal Monopoly

Sidak, J. Gregory; Spulber, Daniel - American Enterprise Institute

J. Gregory Sidak and Daniel F. Spulber examine the justifications for the publicly-protected postal monopoly and its public ownership and control.

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An Agenda for Federal Regulatory Reform

DeMuth, Christopher; Hahn, Robert W.; Litan, Robert E.; … - American Enterprise Institute

The authors of this primer believe that the current approach to federal regulation urgently needs repair. …

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