Industry Structure and Pricing: The New Rivalry in Infrastructure extends current economic models by incorporating effects of actual and potential rivalry in markets outside the markets of immediate interest. Focusing on the contestable model, the author shows how diverse patterns of actual and...

Do universal service programs give customers what they want? This paper uses new survey data to study low-income households' telecommunications choices in the United States and to consider the degree to which such households' preferences are addressed by existing universal service programs. The...

"Reset" means to develop fresh perspectives and knowledge about the future, all the while holding in trust the wisdom of the past. This article examines three juxtapositions: (1) Focus on next practices, not best practices; (2) Emphasize learning the why of how things work and not just the what;...

This extensive, state-of-the-art Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the various experiences of liberalization across different sectors, regions and disciplines.

I examine the effects of market concentration on connectivity in network industries. Using Cournot interactions for a duopoly, each network chooses quantity, quality for communications within the provider’s own network (internal quality), and quality for communications between the provider’s...