-and-Spoke networks and the emergence of low cost carriers (LCCs) operating Point-to-Point networks were optimal choices. We demonstrate … undermined by competition from inefficient Point-to-Point networks. We argue that social welfare may have been, and still can be …

This paper analyses the role of the European Commission in taking cases of abuse of dominance in the telecommunications … sector since its liberalisation in 1998. The argument is that the Commission has played a very active antitrust role, in … squeeze, the most common form of abuse in telecommunications; and they have allowed wide discretion to the Commission to deal …

would shift from promoting telephony competition to promoting an industry structure that facilitates telecommunications …

area LATA) to another. Although the Telecommunications Act of 1996 superseded the MFJ, it retained the BOCs' interLATA … did not expect price to fall after BOC entry into the interLATA market. Reprinted from Antitrust Law Journal, vol. 70, no …. 2, pp. 463-484 (2002), a publication of the American Bar Association Section of Antitrust Law …

This essay, written three years before the enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, is a reminder of how little … has been accomplished in deregulating telecommunications. In 1993, I erroneously predicted that American … telecommunications regulation was about to collapse like the walls of Jericho. The industries that we are accustomed to calling telephony …

As economists with significant experience in competition, telecommunications, and regulatory matters, we have filed the … Judgment), would predictably inflict serious antitrust injury on consumers and competition …

In this piece, we respond to comments on our earlier essay on access pricing in telecommunications on the efficient …, which embraced the ECPR as a principle consistent with New Zealand antitrust law. We conclude with some remarks about the …

Since 1997, the U.S. government has attempted to use the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreement on telecommunications … services as a vehicle for exporting American principles of telecommunications regulation to other nations. The United States … took the position in 1997 that the WTO telecommunications agreement requires its signatory nations to follow the practices …