Price cap regulation (PCR) has now been employed in the telecommunications industry for
more than a quarter century. We review the experience with PCR and offer an explanation …

This article considers how regulators set prices in network industries. Traditionally this was
done by setting prices to end users for services produced by a vertically integrated …

Assessing the changes over time in the efficiency of firms participating in competitive
markets has always been a major concern to researchers and experts alike. With respect to …

Abstract Models of public utility regulation are often framed, alternatively, as rate-of-return or
price-cap regulation. In practice, however, regulators have increasingly adopted a variety of …

Despite of the introduction of incentive regulations and competition, the US incumbent local
exchange carriers (ILECs) have suffered from a substantial slowdown in productivity growth …

We focus on the role of the price of basic local telephone service on broadband adoption, to
determine whether and to what extent overlapping legacy telephone policies interfere with …

The purpose of this quantitative descriptive correlations study was to examine the
relationship between regulations, innovations, and the combined influence on the …

In this dissertation, I examine how political environments influence industry structure and
entrepreneurial opportunities following deregulation. Though deregulation implies a …