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 …

. 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 …

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 … consideration of public policy issues in the areas of antitrust, price regulation, environmental regulation, product quality, and …

applications, architectures, networks, economics, public policy, industry structures, regulation, and service providers. This book …

on the interplay of auctions, industry dynamics, and regulation. This book collects essays on this topic by leading … analysts of telecommunications and the European auction experience, all but one presented at a November 2001 CESifo conference … regulation, a multidimensional approach yields important insights. The first essays discuss strategies of stimulating new …

More then just a textbook, A Theory of Incentives in Procurement and Regulation will guide economists' research on … regulation for years to come. It makes a difficult and large literature of the new regulatory economics accessible to the average … pathbreaking work in the application of principal-agent theory to questions of regulation, Laffont and Tirole develop a synthetic …