Sidney Weintraub nos presenta una reseña útil y completa de la floreciente bibliografía sobre los efectos potenciales del TLC en sectores e industrias individuales. Comparto la intranquilidad de Weintraub en cuanto al uso de estos estudios diversos para pronosticar los efectos precisos de la...

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.

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

Book review

This paper reviews the literature and assesses the effects of antitrust policy and enforcement on consumer welfare. We find no evidence that antitrust policy in the areas of monopolization, collusion, and mergers has provided much benefit to consumers and, in some instances, we find evidence...

Initially, the minimum corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) program was promoted as a policy to reduce U.S. vulnerability to oil shocks. In the past two years, however, concern about global warming has resulted in new political pressures to raise CAFE once again to reduce the growth in U.S....

There is widespread concern in the telecommunications industry that public policy may be impeding the continued development of the Internet into a high-speed communications network. In the absence of ubiquitous, high-speed ¡°broadband¡± Internet connections for residential and small-business...

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Opening Telecom Markets: The 1996 Telecommunications Act -- Chapter 3. The First Eight Years under the New Law -- Chapter 4. Local Competition under the 1996 Act -- Chapter 5. Effect of...