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Laffont, Jean-Jacques; Tirole, Jean - The MIT Press

In Competition in Telecommunications, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole analyze regulatory reform and the emergence …

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Interconnecting the Network of Networks

Noam, Eli M. - The MIT Press

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 …

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Economics of Regulation and Antitrust, 4th Edition

Viscusi, W. Kip; Harrington, Joseph E.; Vernon, John M. - The MIT Press

its treatment of the restructuring and deregulation of the telecommunications and electric power industries, and includes …

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Lectures on Antitrust Economics

Whinston, Michael D. - The MIT Press

Antitrust law regulates economic activity but differs in its operation from what is traditionally considered "regulation." Where regulation is often industry-specific and involves the direct setting of prices, product characteristics, or entry, antitrust law focuses more broadly on maintaining...

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Optimal Regulation: The Economic Theory of Natural Monopoly

Train, Kenneth E. - The MIT Press

Optimal Regulation addresses the central issue of regulatory economics - how to regulate firms in a way that induces them to produce and price "optimally." It synthesizes the major findings of an extensive theoretical literature on what constitutes optimality in various situations and which...

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Regulatory Reform: Economic Analysis and British Experience

Armstrong, Mark; Cowan, Simon; Vickers, John - The MIT Press

reform, and then applies the analysis to the British experience in four utility industries--telecommunications, gas …

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Heuristics and the Law

Gigerenzer, Gerd (contributor); Engel, Christoph (contributor) - The MIT Press

In recent decades, the economists' concept of rational choice has dominated legal reasoning. And yet, in practical terms, neither the lawbreakers the law addresses nor officers of the law behave as the hyperrational beings postulated by rational choice. Critics of rational choice and believers...

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Recent Developments in Antitrust: Theory and Evidence

Choi, Jay Pil (contributor) - The MIT Press

Antitrust policy in the United States and Europe relies increasingly on economic analysis. Economic theory and empirical analysis play a central role in antitrust decisions in the courts and in the formulation and enforcement of policy. Antitrust cases are argued using sophisticated economic...

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Handbook of Antitrust Economics

Buccirossi, Paolo (contributor) - The MIT Press

Over the past twenty years, economic theory has begun to play a central role in antitrust matters. In earlier days, the application of antitrust rules was viewed almost entirely in formal terms; now it is widely accepted that the proper interpretation of these rules requires an understanding of...

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Creative Destruction: Business Survival Strategies in the Global Internet Economy

McKnight, Lee W. (contributor); Vaaler, Paul M. (contributor) - The MIT Press

efficient rivals. This book asks whether the current chaotic state of the telecommunications and related Internet industries is … benefits to society as a whole. In telecommunications, for example, wireless, IP, and cable-based technologies are all fighting … innovative products and services in telecommunications, media, electronic retailing, and other "new economy" industries. …

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