The paper focuses on the relation of competition to changes in productivity. Specifically, it compares the experience … which competition produces differential changes in efficiency. The results support, by implication, a policy of permitting … entry and competition in local telephone markets …

After a brief discussion on expected and actual investment behavior in the telecommunications industry after the 1996 … Act, an econometric model is used to quantify the relationship between UNE-P competition and Bell Operating Company … investments in telecommunications plant. Using publicly-available Federal Communications Commission data, a positive relationship …

competition in an abstract, sterile way. To illustrate the dangers of using such an abstract approach to the key issue of ILEC … market power, this paper uses the Commission's 1999 decision to de-regulate the prices for Special Access telecommunications … services as a case study, wherein the Commission abandoned its own general framework for competition analysis in favor of using …

In this article we study the impact of taxation in the telecommunications sector. In order to do so, we develop a model … considering the taxes and fees imposed directly or indirectly along the telecommunications value chain. Overall, we find evidence …

This Policy Bulletin measures the gains to consumer welfare of the new "all distance"/"all you can eat" competition … produced by the market-opening provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Analysis reveals that the consumer welfare …

full liberalization of telecommunications markets provides scope for relying to a large extent on general antitrust rules … Zealand which fully liberalized its telecommunications markets in the late 1980's and relied primarily on antitrust …

This article challenges the conventional wisdom that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is to blame for the lack of … competition in local telephony, and that somehow the federal courts are complicit in this failure. It begins by highlighting the … continued importance of local wireline infrastructure and how little competition exists. Moving to the 1996 Act's network …

opportunity costs. This paper provides empirical evidence in support of the importance of telecommunications sector reform to … put forward in this study establishes that privatization of incumbent telecommunications operators supports the … introduction of competition and improved quality of regulations, which together condition the speed of technology migration, the …