diversity of telecommunications innovation increased. Total patenting by US inventors related to telecommunications increased by …

This paper provides a novel rationale for the regulation of market size when heterogeneous firms compete. A regulator …

The economics literature on Net Neutrality (NN) has been largely critical of NN regulation on the basis of theoretical … violations. In contrast, the current paper argues that NN regulation is largely ineffective, in particular, when it comes to the … price rule. NN regulation is effective only in preventing the blocking of specific content and in preventing the favoring of …

Interconnection rates are a key variable in telecommunications markets. Every call that is placed must be terminated by … subject to regulation in many countries. This paper examines the impact of regulatory intervention to cut termination rates of … customers with pre-paid cards, where regulation also acts as impediment to “raise-each-other’s-cost” collusive strategies that …

Uncertainty in election outcomes generates politically induced regulatory risk. For monopoly regulation, political …