This paper addresses the impact on investment incentives of the network sharing arrangements mandated by the … prices reflecting what it would cost a new, efficient, large-scale network to be built. Such sharing opportunities are … extensive, covering virtually the entire suite of network services provided, and extremely flexible, as the entrant can rent …

The regulation of telecommunications, railroads, and other network industries has been based on mandatory unbundling …

Telecommunications regulation in the U.S. is replete with a system of subsidies and taxes. Because of budgetary … so that all public schools and libraries in the U.S. will receive subsidized service to the Internet. The cost of the … of the higher taxation of interstate telephone services to fund the Internet access discounts. I estimate the cost to the …

Using new measures of expanded Internet access in China and internet-based search, we examine how competitive shocks … innovation competition using the geography of Chinese internet penetration and Chinese import data. Increases in the ability of … Chinese industry peers to gather knowledge through the internet are followed by reductions in U.S. R&D investment and …

We correct and extend the results of Gans (2015) regarding the effects of net neutrality regulation on equilibrium …

government designs the rules of the game has an impact on concentration, competition, and prices. Pro-competition regulation …

The U.S. regulation of high-voltage transmission is highly complex and, as a result, generally poorly understood. The …) retail electricity services that include the distribution network, the retail cost of transmission service, and often … are not synchronized with the larger regional grid. We summarize this complex structure of transmission regulation in the …

an earnings-weighted basis. In view of this projection, we consider some implications of home internet access quality …, exploiting data from the new Survey of Working Arrangements and Attitudes. Moving to high-quality, fully reliable home internet …. Our survey data also say that subjective well-being was higher during the pandemic for people with better home internet …