This chapter reviews recent theoretical work on the design of regulatory policy, focusing on
the complications that arise when regulated suppliers have better information about the …

The last thirty years have witnessed a fundamental change in the regulation of infrastructure
industries. Whereas firms were subject to rate of return regulation and protected from entry in …

In many countries throughout the world, regulators are struggling to determine whether and
how to introduce competition into regulated industries. This essay examines the …

Despite the popularity of price-cap regulation in practice, the economic literature provides
limited guidance on how to determine the X factor, which is the rate at which inflation …

This article reviews the major insights of the economics literature regarding the design of
service quality regulation in public utility industries. The focus is on generic service quality …

We examine the impact of state incentive regulation on network modernization, aggregate
investment, revenue, cost, profit, and local service rates in the US telecommunications …

En este libro se ofrece un análisis del desarrollo de las sociedades de la información en los
países de América Latina y el Caribe y constituye un insumo para la formulación de políticas …

A growing number of countries are reexamining telecommunications policies in search of
approaches that better support investment and innovation in advanced communication …

In an influential paper, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole (1986) formulated a principal–
agent model of cost-based procurement and regulation and showed that the principal can …

This article is the first and the qualitative section of a two-part strategy research project which
examines the state of the global telecommunications market and assesses the business …