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...

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

The economic literature on the prospects for cable television in the nation's major television markets is universally pessimistic. The conventional wisdom, as expressed by Park and Mitchell in the pages of this Journal, is that cable systems will not be able to enroll many subscribers in areas...

In this paper, a television program cost function is derived from a simple model of network rivalry based upon the Cournot postulate. This cost function is then fitted to data from a cross section of new network entertainment series for 1960-1965. The resulting estimates are quite unfavorable to...

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.

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...