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Regulatory Reform: Economic Analysis and British Experience

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

and anticompetitive practices that are of interest for competition policy in general. …

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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 … of competition in network industries using the state-of-the-art theoretical tools of industrial organization, political … deregulatory movement: the introduction of incentive regulation; one-way access; the special nature of competition in a industry …

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Innovation and Growth in the Global Economy

Grossman, Gene M.; Helpman, Elhanan - The MIT Press

Traditional growth theory emphasizes the incentives for capital accumulation rather than technological progress. Innovation is treated as an exogenous process or a by-product of investment in machinery and equipment. Grossman and Helpman develop a unique approach in which innovation is viewed as...

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Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 7

Jaffe, Adam B. (contributor); Lerner, Josh (contributor); … - The MIT Press

The economic importance of innovative activity brings with it an active debate on the effect of public policy on the innovation process. This annual series, sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research, brings the work of leading academic researchers to the broader policy community,...

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Internet Telephony

McKnight, Lee W. (contributor); Lehr, William (contributor); … - The MIT Press

Internet telephony is the integration and convergence of voice and data networks, services, and applications. The rapidly developing technology can convert analog voice input to digital data, send it over available networked channels, and then convert it back to voice output. Traditional...

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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 network of networks, and the glue that holds it together, interconnection. By their very nature, monopoly-owned networks provided a small number of standardized, nationwide...

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Spectrum Auctions and Competition in Telecommunications

Illing, Gerhard (contributor); Klüh, Ulrich (contributor) - The MIT Press

competition and the complex interplay of the political process, regulation, and competition. The later essays focus on specific …

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Regulation and Markets

Spulber, Daniel F. - The MIT Press

into the economic framework. Sections of the book address administrative process and market allocation, competition and …

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A Theory of Incentives in Procurement and Regulation

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

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 graduate student, while offering insights into the...

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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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