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

This paper develops and simulates a dynamic model of strategic telecom competition. The goal is to understand how … regulatory policy, particularly relative to lease charges for local network elements, affects telecom competition, investment … allow CLECs to lease their local network facilities was established in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as part of a quid …

Telecommunications Act of 1996, with a focus on the implications of irreversible investment. Although the goal is to promote competition …

We study how political factors shape competition in the mobile telecommunication sector. We show that the way a … government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation … competition. Government intervention has large redistributive effects: U.S. consumers would gain $65bn a year if U.S. mobile …

This paper documents and assesses the significance of the policy changes in China that WTO accession implies in 3 key … their entirety as undertaken at signature in 2002. While it would seem that China will have extraordinarily open markets for … implementation of China's WTO commitments, and following dispute settlement might retaliate in the future were these agreed changes …

to invest in telecommunications. Results indicate that the irreversibility premium raises the opportunity cost of capital …

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 …

control regulation and evaluate the impact of transition from regulation to competition. To provide a sharp contrast between … the difficulties of the traditional approach to regulation and the benefits of introducing competition, we focus on the … cases of electricity and telecommunications. The direction for future changes is also discussed …