Competition in Telecommunications

Competition in Telecommunications
ISBN-10
0262621509
ISBN-13
9780262621502
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
315
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
MIT Press
Authors
Jean Tirole, Jean-Jacques Laffont

Description

In Competition in Telecommunications, Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole analyze regulatory reform and the emergence of competition in network industries using the state-of-the-art theoretical tools of industrial organization, political economy, and the economics of incentives.The book opens with background information for the reader who is unfamiliar with current issues in the telecommunications industry. The following sections focus on four central aspects of the recent deregulatory movement: the introduction of incentive regulation; one-way access; the special nature of competition in an industry requiring two-way access; and universal service, in particular, the use of engineering models to compute subsidies and the design of universal service auctions.

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