. One of the central questions for industrial policy is how to regulate firms with market power. Regulatory Reform tackles … this important policy issue in two parts: it describes an analytical framework for studying the main issues in regulatory … reform, and then applies the analysis to the British experience in four utility industries--telecommunications, gas …

This book describes the transformation of telecommunications from national network monopolies to a new system, the …-based economy. Especially for large organizations, the price, control, security, and reliability of telecommunications became …'s telecommunications and Internet infrastructure. Taking a broad, multidisciplinary perspective Eli Noam discusses the importance and …

In Competition in Telecommunications, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole analyze regulatory reform and the emergence … deregulatory movement: the introduction of incentive regulation; one-way access; the special nature of competition in a industry …

Telecommunications policy profoundly affects the economy and our everyday lives. Yet accounts of important … regulatory scheme, no book has cogently explained the intricacies of telecommunications competition policy in the Internet age … telecommunications issues tend to be either superficial (and inaccurate) or mired in jargon and technical esoterica. In Digital …

it comes to economic policy. What would policy look like if we took basic principles of mainstream economics seriously … and applied them consistently? In the debate over regulation, for example, Baker—one of the few economists who predicted … policy and deciding who benefits from it. On health care reform, Baker complains that economists ignore another basic idea …

The past twenty-five years have seen a significant evolution in environmental policy, with new environmental … in environmental law, policy, and economics, tracing their development over the past few decades through an examination …. Environmental Law, Policy, and Economics, which grew out of courses taught by the authors at MIT, treats the traditional topics …

government discipline, in the form of regulation, seems to grows less effective as the banking industry and financial markets … discipline and public policy. …

corporate governance. That's unfortunate, because good regulatory policy, he claims, can make markets and firms work efficiently …, and policy. …

. Alternatively, private ownership and consumers' political power can be reconciled through regulation. Either way, network utilities …. Network utilities pose special problems of ownership and regulation. He discusses the history of ownership and regulation …, privatization, and theories of regulation. Examining three network utilities in detail—telecoms, electricity, and gas—he contrasts …

consideration of public policy issues in the areas of antitrust, price regulation, environmental regulation, product quality, and …Regulation and Markets provides the up to date, integrated analysis of regulatory policies and the administrative … process that is needed in today's field of regulation economics. The book takes a modern perspective, using the tools of …