Incumbent vertical market power in deregulating markets can be anticompetitive, as seen in the current process of retail electricity restructuring. This paper uses the AT&T antitrust case’s Bell Doctrine precedent of “quarantine the monopoly” as a case study in incumbent vertical market...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 A brief history and theory of electric utility regulation in the United States -- chapter 3 A decentralized coordination framework for analyzing regulatory institutions -- chapter 4 Rethinking retail regulation: Enabling active demand and retail choice --...