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” services and, as such, new price regulation of broadband services may be warranted by the Federal Communications Commission to …
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exhaust turns the standard antitrust analysis on its head — namely, that more competitors may, in fact, lead to higher prices …
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One of the most contentious debates in modern telecommunications policy regards whether or not a regulatory mandated reductions in the per-minute costs of long distance carriers - access charges domestically and settlement rates internationally - are fully reflected in the per-minute prices for...
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fragmentation that competitive rivalry will obviate the continuing need for regulation. Suppose, however, that the ongoing process …
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spending are top priorities in Washington. A now-popular target for reform is regulation, which even President Obama claims to … budget. That said, while regulation imposes costs, regulation may also have social benefits, and this fact should be …
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Access services. Given the present debate over expanding price regulation in this sector, the importance of market definition … on the expected economic effects of regulation is worth evaluating. In this paper, we demonstrate that if geographic … markets are “location specific” and supplied by a monopolist as the proponents of regulation claim, then price regulation …
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Using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' (“BLS”) data on industry employment, I quantify the effect on telecommunications jobs of the Obama Administration's regulatory revival in telecommunications using the difference-in-differences (“DiD”) estimator. I find that over the period 2010-2016,...
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Over the past twenty years we have seen the emergence of an important phenomenon in the practice of modern regulation …. Also, regulation “as practiced” now may allow an administrative agency to expand greatly its power beyond its statutory …
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content and broadband providers. While proponents of such regulation may view it as protection from alleged anticompetitive …
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