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This Perspective argues that the Federal Communications Commission's current "trigger framework" of counting the number of competitors in a market in order to determine whether or not a rival is "impaired" is a model of analytical inconsistency. Specifically, the Commission defines "impairment"...
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This Perspective argues that while it is very important for policy makers to take a dynamic approach to telecoms, it unfortunately appears that many policymakers recently have used anecdotal evidence of intermodal competition to blur deliberately the line between "probability" and "ephemeral...
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This POLICY PAPER presents an economic model showing how incumbent local exchange carriers may deter efficient facilities-based entry for high capacity loop facilities through the use of quantity-discount contracts for Special Access services. Since efficient entry is deterred, these contracts...
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Competition between parallel infrastructures incorporates opposing welfare effects. The gain from reduced deadweight loss might be outweighed by the inefficient duplication of an existing infrastructure. Using data from broadband internet access for Western Europe 2000-2004, this paper...
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being introduced. In competition law, the Regulation on the implementation of the rules on competition has lead to a … overview of these models of regulation. Then, it examines these regulatory structures and focuses on the question of the impact … of the decentralization process in the context of decentred understandings of regulation. It points to the paradox of law …
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While most contracts are made between two parties in search of profit and without substantial government scrutiny, some are not so happy. This project examines one such species, the interconnection agreement entered into under the 1996 Telecommunications Act. After discussing the history and...
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seeking to protect their cultural interests in federal public lands, whether they derive from treaty, statute, regulation … prompt a claim for cultural protection. This Part highlights the patchwork of confusing, overlapping federal regulation …
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Railways restructuring takes place under very different circumstances and with very different goals in Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, and Russia. Observed improvements in productivity associated with vertical access and vertical separation in Western Europe are not certain to be...
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transportation regulation policies were imposing on the American economy. Although the FTC has been involved in advocacy activities … anticompetitive regulation on their own. Antitrust immunities, moreover, sometimes put anticompetitive regulation beyond the reach of …
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This article examines the Program Access provisions contained in the Cable Television Consumer Protection and Competition Act of 1992 ("1992 Act"), which sought to promote entry into local distribution markets through interim limits on strategic vertical restraints between vertically integrated...
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