Structure, Regulation and Competition

Klappentext The years since the early 1980s have seen exceptionally fast rates of change in every aspect of the telecommunications industry. This volume prov ides detailed reviews and commentaries on these contemporary changes in the landscape of a major industry from an academic perspective. Zusammenfassung The years since the early 1980s have seen exceptionally fast rates of change in every aspect of the telecommunications industry. This volume prov ides detailed reviews and commentaries on these contemporary changes in the landscape of a major industry from an academic perspective. Inhaltsverzeichnis Structure! Regulation and Competition in the Telecommunications Industry (M.E. Cave! S.K. Majumdar! I. Vogelsang). 1. Introduction. Section 1: Structure. 2. Historical overview (G. Brock). 3. Network effects (S. Leibowitz! S. Margolis). 4. Customer demand analysis (L.D. Taylor). 5. Econometric cost functions (M. Fuss! L. Waverman). 6. Representation of technology and production (W.W. Sharkey). Section 2: Regulation. 7. Price regulation (D.E.M. Sappington). 8. The theory of access pricing and interconnection (M. Armstrong). 9. Interconnection practices (E. Noam). 10. Universal residential telephone services (M. Riordan). Section 3: Competition. 11. Competition policy in telecommunications (D.F. Spulber). 12. Competition in the long distance market (D. Kaserman! J.W. Mayo). 13. Mobile telephone (J. Hausman). 14. Spectrum auctions (P. Cramton). 15. Local network competition (G.A. Woroch). Subject index.

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• Con la collaborazione di: Martin E Cave (Editore), Martin E. Cave (Editore), Sumit K Majumdar (Editore), Sumit K. Majumdar (Editore), Ingo Vogelsang (Editore)
• Editore: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 21.08.2002
• EAN: 9780444503893
• ISBN: 978-0-444-50389-3
• Pagine: 742
• Serie: Handbook of Telecommunications; Handbook of Telecommunications Economics S.; Handbook of Telecommunications Economics; Handbook of Telecommunications Economics; Handbook of Telecommunications
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Altro