In the parlance of regulatory economics, “pass-through” refers to the effect of a change in an incremental cost – generally, the effect of a change in a regulated input price – on the retail price of a good or service. In this paper we examine retail long distance telephone service...

A central concern of antitrust analysis is determining whether or not a firm possesses significant market power. The trend in the US and many other countries toward liberalized regulation or deregulation of telecommunications providers has been accompanied by the application of these antitrust...

There is a policy debate at both state and federal levels over how to facilitate consumer adoption of the Internet and, particularly, broadband technology to access the Internet. The objective of this study is to offer empirical evidence directly relevant to this debate. In so doing, we examine...

There is a policy debate at both state and federal levels over how to facilitate consumer adoption of the Internet and, particularly, broadband technology to access the Internet. The objective of this study is to offer empirical evidence directly relevant to this debate. In so doing, we examine...