Causes and consequences of policy reform in utility industries continue to draw debate in US state legislatures. State … commissions approve various deregulatory mechanisms in different industries at different times. In the telecommunications market … state commissions adopted retail restructuring via Section 271 of the Telecommunications Act at different points in time …

policies, a number of challenges remain. Although there are few sectors of the economy from which competition policy and law … competition enforcement. Intellectual property rights create special challenges for competition policy and some problems have … setbacks, reflecting both the difficulties in ensuring competition in such industries and policy mistakes. …

importance of industrial organization in shaping prospects for climate mitigation policy. Using a generalized difference … adopt a cap-and-trade program. I argue that the forced reduction in market share of incumbent utilities associated with …

-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation among investor-owned electric utilities in the late 1990s. I construct a …Under what conditions does cost-of-service regulation lead firms to distort costs? This paper analyzes changes in fuel … under cost-of-service regulation. I then show that the drop in the price of coal is associated with a reallocation of …

The paper aims at empirically investigating the relationship between regulation and the capital structure of the …

royalties. The experience of telecommunications regulation in the United States, from the AT&T divestiture in the early 1980s to … the implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, illustrates the potential harm to competition and innovation … introduction of new services. Forced sharing of incumbents’ network elements at regulated rates under the Telecommunications Act …

The United States moved closer to Net Neutrality regulation this year when the Federal Communications Commission found … that Comcast, a cable broadband Internet service provider, violated a set of Internet policy principles the FCC adopted in … challenges the basis on which the FCC found that it had violated federal policy in the absence of pre-existing legally …

The deregulation of the telephone industry has been a major task of public policy for the past two decades. There have …