The price that a regulated access provider charges for shifting customers between service providers has significant welfare implications. Typical regulatory approaches to pricing, such as pricing based on fully allocated cost or incremental cost, ignore the characteristics of consumer demand. A...

In the deliberations of scholars, policy analysts, and policy makers, television has exceptional power and influence. Yet the historical record shows that television has not changed the economics of attention for large populations in the course of their daily lives. This contrast is not merely a...

The U.S. growth experience in the 1990s and the perceptions of a new economy contrast sharply with trends in bandwidth use and pricing across the 1990s. Dramatic increases in bandwidth use and dramatic reductions in bandwidth prices that were predicted to occur in the second half the 1990s did...

To best promote benefits to persons as consumers and creators of communication, information, and network services, regulators should seek to transform communications industry structure in a way that supports the most beneficial forms of competition. Recent experience with long-distance calling,...

This paper considers sex discrimination in the early English cotton factories. Intrinsic differences between men and women offer a less compelling explanation for sex discrimination than much of the literature suggests. A labor sorting model offers an alternative explanation of how...

An acceleration in the growth of communications bandwidth in use and a rapid reduction in bandwidth prices have not accompanied the U.S. economy's strong performance in the second half of the 1990s. Overall U.S. bandwidth in use has grown robustly throughout the 1990s, but growth has not...

Federal transfers to Russia's agro-industrial complex fell from 10 percent of GDP in 1992 to 3 percent of GDP in 1993, and were slated to be only 2 percent of GDP in 1994. But the basic framework for agricultural policy has not changed since the Soviet era and federal transfers have tended to...

The demand for text messaging relative to telephony, the amount of time spent participating in virtual worlds or digital games relative to television viewing, and the value of camera phone services all depend on how persons make sense in communication. Three models for communication are...

Law, economics, and public policy scholars have largely neglected government communications. Research on media law and development, as well as considerations of future regulatory frameworks for communications, should recognize that the future might benefit from a much broader and more...

Law, economics, and public policy scholars have largely neglected government communications. Research on media law and development, as well as considerations of future regulatory frameworks for communications, should recognize that the future might benefit from a much broader and more...