competition in two-part tariffs, we consider a class of accesspricing rules, similar to the optimal one under competition in …

This paper examines the justifications, history, and practice ofregulation in the US telecommunications sector. We … telephony (VOIP). We also examine the impact of the 1996Telecommunications Act on market structure and strategy in … point to the real danger that theintent of Congress in passing the 1996 Act to promote competition intelecommunications will …

This paper investigates the results of competition between two profit-seeking telecommunications carriers, as might … final outcome of competition. Furthermore, it is shown that a firm may not choose to compete in the market for one of the …

One of the requirements for the good functioning of competition among sickness funds isthe absence of risk selection …. Selection by funds has adverse effects which counter the positiveeffects of competition, to name the improvement of quality and …

opened to competition. The most viable practice was call-by-call services in telecommunications markets. Entrants were … regulatory authorities all over the world. Although this so-called one-way interconnection model is still valid, competition … models of network competition, such as Laffont, Rey, and Tirole (1998a) and Armstrong (1998) highlight the collusive role of …