An important issue in economics is how market structure affects prices.While the standard view is that competition lowers prices, Chen andRiordan (2006) argued that with product differentiation it is notexceptional for prices to be higher under duopoly than monopoly. Thispaper empirically...

This paper empirically investigates the effect of international simpleresale (ISR) authorization on the prices for international messagetelephone service (IMTS). We compile a firm-level panel data set forover 200 United States-foreign country bilateral markets from 1995 to2004. These data...

An important issue in economics is how market structure affects prices. While the standard view is that competition lowers prices, Chen and Riordan (2006) argued that with product differentiation it is not exceptional for prices to be higher under duopoly than monopoly. This paper empirically...

This paper examines how regulators set local prices in response to the changes brought on by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (“Telecom Act”). We are particularly interested in the extent to which state regulators set prices that promoted efficiency or were influenced by private-interest...

This paper empirically investigates the effect of international simple resale (ISR) authorization on the prices for international message telephone service (IMTS). We compile a firm-level panel data set for over 200 United States-foreign country bilateral markets from 1995 to 2004. These data...