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Review of Jean-Jacques Rosa, The Second Twentieth Century

Boudreaux, Donald - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 15 (2008) 3, pp. 379-382

The book reviewed here contends that production techniques - and in particular today, techniques embodying modern information technology - determine political attitudes and, hence, the structure and role of the state. The book's author, Jean-Jacques Rosa, is not successful in making a compelling...

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Laffont and Tirole's Competition in Telecommunications : A View From the US

Parsons, Steve - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 9 (2002) 3, pp. 419-436

This article briefly reviews Competition in Telecommunications by Laffont andTirole (2000); it presents the major … telecommunications industry. In US telecommunications access to incumbents facilities are priced based on cost model estimates. Several … of the important sources of misunderstandings of telecommunications costs and cost estimates are described including …

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Are Unbundled and Self-supplied Telecommunications Switching Substitutes? An Empirical Study

Beard, T. Randolph; Ford, George - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 12 (2005) 2, pp. 163-181

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 requires incumbent monopoly phone companies to lease elements of their networks to …

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An Econometric-Driven Merger Simulation: Considerations and Application

Beard, T. Randolph; Ford, George; Saba, Richard - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 13 (2006) 2, pp. 217-228

In this paper, we offer a hybrid approach to merger simulation in which we allow rather extensive pre-testing to suggest the 'correct', or most desirable, form for the underlying demand curves. Our application is the merger between the large mobile telephone companies Cingular and AT&T Wireless...

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Are Local TV Markets Separate Markets?

Ekelund, Robert; Ford, George; Jackson, John - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 7 (2000) 1, pp. 79-97

In sweeping revisions the US Telecommunications Act of 1996 relaxed rules respecting broadcast TV ownership regulations …

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Private Control, Competion, and the Performance of Telephone Firms in Less Developed Countries

Viani, Bruno - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 11 (2004) 2, pp. 217-240

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