In this piece, we respond to comments on our earlier essay on access pricing in telecommunications on the efficient component-pricing rule (ECPR) that appeared in the Winter, 1994 issue of the Yale Journal on Regulation. We are in essential agreement with the comments of Professor Alfred Kahn...

Optional or self-selecting tariffs allow customers to choose between an established tariff and an alternative outlay schedule. The possibility of making the vendor and at least one consumer better off, without making any other consumer worse off, makes optional tariffs appealing to both...

Local telephone companies have long been regulated as natural monopolies. However, technological innovation and the prospect of falling regulatory barriers to entry now expose some portions of the local exchange to competition from cable television systems, wireless telephony, and rival wireline...

We examine the consumer-welfare implications of Google's project to scan a large proportion of the world's books into digital form and to make these works accessible to consumers through Google Book Search (GBS). In response to a class action alleging copyright infringement, Google has agreed to...