Using a point-to-point model of toll demand, this paper provides estimates of own-price demand elasticities for international message telephone service. The study improves on previous studies by using more recent data and endogenizing price. Consistent with earlier studies, the demand for IMTS...

Delay due to multiple merger reviews in regulated industries is analysed empirically. Tests on a sample of over 500 mergers between 1990 and 1998 reveal that delay is 80% longer in regulated industries than unregulated industries

From the very earliest antitrust cases to the present, courts have struggled with a fundamental conflict involving contracts between buyers and sellers of intermediate goods. Namely, on the one hand, contractual arrangements binding a buyer to a particular seller frequently are necessary to...

In March 1997, the Supreme Court upheld the must-carry provisions of the 1992 Cable Act on the grounds that they insured the survival of the “free” over-the-air television. This article empirically evaluates the efficacy of must-carry in preserving free television and shows that non-network...

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 reduced restrictions oin the cable TV industry, providing completely deregulated rates in March 1999. In this paper, we develop a simple tradeoff between price and quality in order to calculate the welfare tradeoff to consumers of the provision of one...

The purpose of this paper is threefold: first, we warn analysts against the use of structural coeffcient estimates alone for deducing quantitative inferences concerning many policy experiments. Second, we offer a potential solution to the problem by proposing a mutatis mutandis approach to...

In this paper, we offer a hybrid approach to merger simulation in which we allow rather extensive pre-testing to suggest the ‘correct', or most desirable, form for the underlying demand curves. Our application is the merger between the large mobile telephone companies Cingular and AT&T...

In this paper, we disprove claims by proponents of increased Internet regulation that Broadband Service Providers (“BSPs”) - such as AT&T, Verizon, Sprint-Nextel, Qwest, Comcast, and Time Warner Cable - make “record profits,” “substantial profits,” and “soaring profits.” By...

The United States has recently reinvigorated its efforts to promote ubiquitous broadband at affordable prices for all Americans by both committing over $7.2 billion in stimulus funds and by requiring the Federal Communications Commission to issue a “National Broadband Plan.” The big policy...