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This study evaluates the effect of incentive regulation on the productivity of U.S. local exchange carriers between 1988 and 1993. Introducing pure price-cap schemes has a strong and positive, but lagged, effect on technical efficiency. Where price-cap schemes operate in conjunction with an...
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Recent deregulation of telecommunications in the US and elsewhere has highlighted the importance of interconnection in …. We discuss the implications for some of the provisions of the new US Telecommunications Act, specifically mandatory …
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Recent deregulation of telecommunications in the U.S. and elsewhere has highlighted the importance of interconnection … access prices. We discuss the implications for some of the provisions of the new U.S. Telecommunications Act, specifically …
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This paper empirically investigates the effect of international simple resale (ISR) authorization on the prices for international message telephone service (IMTS). We compile a firm-level panel data set for over 200 United States-foreign country bilateral markets from 1995 to 2004. These data...
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I claim that the urgently needed telecommunications regulatory reform must rest on three specific principles or … integrity of the telecommunications networks in Canada. Third, the design of non predatory pricing rules (price floors) through … full cost sharing capable of fostering the emergence of a more competitive telecommunications industry, even if such non …
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We develop models of bilateral oligopoly with two-way traffic exchanges to study the impact of competition and government regulatory policies on the international telephone markets. When carriers in each country are required to act collectively in setting a uniform settlement rate for inbound...
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Suppose that a strong and a weak operator compete in a telecommunications market. To terminate a call operators need …
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This paper investigates the incentives to invest in improving the quality (as distinguished to investment in a new activity) in telecommunication industry using the empirical example of wireless markets. We highlight that investment incentives are positively related to the potential for...
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