Sidney Weintraub nos presenta una reseña útil y completa de la floreciente bibliografía sobre los efectos potenciales del TLC en sectores e industrias individuales. Comparto la intranquilidad de Weintraub en cuanto al uso de estos estudios diversos para pronosticar los efectos precisos de la...

This report presents two views of the progress toward telecommunications competition--one for North America and one for Europe.

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

This report presents two views of the progress toward telecommunications competition--one for North America and one for Europe.

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

In the authors' shared opinion, the economic evidence does not support the regulations proposed in the Commission's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking Regarding Preserving the Open Internet and Broadband Industry Practices (the “NPRM”). To the contrary, the economic evidence provides no support...

We examine empirically the proposition that mandatory unbundling is the key to increasing broadband penetration in Mexico. We begin by reviewing the empirical economic literature on the relationship between mandatory unbundling and two measures of economic performance: (1) broadband penetration...

Policies mandating unbundling of copper telecommunications networks have now been in place for more than 15 years, and it is thus becoming possible to study their long-run effects. We review the existing evidence on the effects of copper unbundling, and present new empirical results based on our...

The "parallel behavior is enough" standard cannot assist the courts in distinguishing horizontal agreements to restrain trade from normal competition. It would very likely impose significant costs on the economy by distorting competitive incentives and encouraging meritless litigation designed...