We explore the question of whether wireless industry mergers invariably reduce sector employment and find the answer is "no." We reach this conclusion by looking at four years of data on employment trends surrounding the largest wireless merger to date - the AT&T-Cingular merger in 2004, and two...

This law review examines in detail an emerging gap for evaluating anticompetitive concerns of utility consolidations between the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under the Federal Power Act and the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Public Utilities Holding Company Act. First, this...

The U.S. electricity industry - once the most stoic of industries - is currently is a state of great turmoil and flux. The root of this turmoil stems directly from Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's ("FERC") ostensible efforts to bring "competition" and "de-regulation" to the electric...

This POLICY BULLETIN examines the potential impact of the proposed Cingular/AT&T Wireless merger on both (a) the performance in the national wireless industry; and (b) the potential for wireless "intermodal" competition with fixed line service. After performing both an event study and merger...