Competition and Regulation in Telecommunications

1. Front Matter

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2. Tangled Telecommunications Regulation

   • Wernhard Möschel

   Pages 1-13

3. The Path to Competition for Telecommunications in Germany

   • Christoph Engel

   Pages 15-39

4. Costing and Pricing in Liberalized Telecommunications Markets

   • Günter Knieps

   Pages 41-49

5. Regulation by TSLRIC: Economic Effects on Investment and Innovation

   • Jerry A. Hausman

   Pages 51-67

6. What is Wrong with American Telecommunications?

   • Paul W. MacAvoy, J. Gregory Sidak

   Pages 69-77

7. Back Matter

   Pages 79-83

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This volume brings together academic economists and lawyers to evaluate and compare the regulation of telecommunications markets in Germany and the United States. The unifying theme in all of the pa­ pers is that the goal of public policy in this area should be to make the broadest and most functional competition possible by means of an ap­ propriate regulatory framework. Because the European and American telecommunications markets are becoming more intertwined each day, the issues addressed in this volume will be topical to the business, government, and academic communities for some time. For the chairman of the Monopoly Commission, Wernhard Moschel, the opening of the German telecommunications market has been successful in principle. This is clearly recognizable in the case of the competition in long-distance transport. Based on the view that the regulatory authority should make itself obsolete, Professor Moschel advocates an incremental review and gradual reduction of regulation.

• Germany
• USA
• business
• communication
• competition
• development
• innovation
• investment
• pricing
• public policy
• regulation
• research
• telecommunications

• American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, USA

  J. Gregory Sidak

• University of Osnabrück, Germany

  Christoph Engel

• University of Freiburg, Germany

  Günter Knieps

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