Regulation Under Increasing Competition

✍ Scribed by Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer (auth.), Michael A. Crew (eds.)

Publisher: Springer US
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Leaves: 191
Series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy Series 30
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Regulation Under Increasing Competition brings together practitioners, regulators, and economists to examine the important policy and regulatory issues facing the telecommunications and electricity industries. This volume reviews such topics as competitive entry, stranded costs, pricing and market mechanisms. It provides a unique perspective on problems in a newly deregulated environment.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Regulatory Governance and Competitive Entry....Pages 1-16
Monopoly Leveraging, Path Dependency, and the Case for a Local Competition Threshold for RBOC Entry into Interlata Toll....Pages 17-44
Lowering Prices with Tougher Regulation: Forward-Looking Costs, Depreciation, and the Telecommunications Act of 1996....Pages 45-61
Stranded Assets in Network Industries in Transition....Pages 63-78
Comparing “Stranded Cost” Arguments in Telecommunications and Electricity....Pages 79-94
An Economic Analysis of the Stranded Cost Issue Facing Electric Utilities and Policymakers Today....Pages 95-104
Performance Measurement for Price-Cap Regulation of Telecommunications....Pages 105-136
Computable General Equilibrium Models and Electricity CO 2 Emissions....Pages 137-153
Customer Response to Real-Time Prices in the England and Wales Electricity Market: Implications for Demand-Side Bidding and Pricing Options Design Under Competition....Pages 155-182

✦ Subjects

Industrial Organization; Microeconomics; Management/Business for Professionals

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