Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary …

' incentives to differentiate their services should shape the policy debate for competitive local telecommunications …

countries such as the US, Canada, and Japan. Attempts are made to carry out the measurement based both on the accounting records … depreciation and before taxes is found to fluctuate around 10-11% without a persistent trend. For Canada, the indivi- dual company … Canada supple- mented by some unpublished data supplied by Statistics Canada suggest that the cost of capital in Canada is …

Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of … correct for this source of productivity change would have led to a 31% under estimate of long-run TFP growth in Canada arid a …

Monetary policies in the U.S., Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom over the period 1973-1986 are compared and … Bundesbank and the Bank of Japan each focus on one money target, described by the Bundesbank as a target, and by the Bank of … Japan as a projection. None of the countries has stuck rigorously to the targets, though the Bank of Japan has come close …

. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The … uptrend in previously developed wage gap indexes for Japan and Europe between the 1960s and 1980s. If anything real wages in … Europe and Japan were too flexible rather than too rigid, in the sense that much of the increase in wage gap indexes in …

demand and the dynamic interaction between the two in the context of the U.S. telecommunications industry over an extended … on the cost structure, employment and capital formation of the telecommunications industry in the U.S …

in several ways. First, we provide a brief history of family leave legislation in Europe and North America and summarize …