An important issue in economics is how market structure affects prices. While the standard view is that competition … access, with or without competition from a digital subscriber line provider, and using education dispersion as a proxy for …, competition reduces prices. As education dispersion increases, the negative effect of competition on prices diminishes; and when …

carriers), and we point to the real danger that the intent of Congress in passing the 1996 Act to promote competition in …

of multi-market contact on competition. The analysis uses a dataset of cable TV system prices to provide evidence that …

, depending on the competition-elasticity of CPs' revenues. …

There is general concern that producer subsidies distort competition. We examine a telecommunications subsidy system …