The authors of this primer believe that the current approach to federal regulation urgently needs repair.

This report presents two views of the progress toward telecommunications competition--one for North America and one for Europe.

The authors of this primer believe that the current approach to federal regulation urgently needs repair.

This report presents two views of the progress toward telecommunications competition--one for North America and one for Europe.

Governments, Competition and Utility Regulation continues the series of annual books, published in association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which critically reviews the state of utility regulation and competition policy.

Policies mandating unbundling of copper telecommunications networks have now been in place for more than 15 years, and it is thus becoming possible to study their long-run effects. This paper reviews the existing evidence on the effects of copper unbundling, and presents new empirical results...

Environmental reformers often seek to impose partial, market-like mechanisms into costly, complex new environmental statutes. These mechanisms are likely to offset only a small fraction of the loss in economic welfare created by the rest of the legislation. A far better approach is to write...