Regulation and performance of communication and information networks

"Digital markets worldwide are in rapid flux. The Internet and World Wide Web have traditionally evolved in a largely deregulated environment, but recently governments have shown great interest in this rapidly developing sector and are imposing regulations for a variety of reasons that are chan...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Faulhaber, Gerald R. (Author), Madden, Gary (Author), Petchey, Jeff (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cheltenham, U. K. ; Northampton, Massachusetts : Edward Elgar , c2012
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Challenges of institutional governance for network infrastructures : reinstitution and expansion of legal innovations
  • 2. Beyond traditional regulatory models : emerging governance for new networks
  • 3. Government oversight of next generation wireless networks
  • 4. Incentive regulation, investments and technological change
  • 5. Policy and regulation for next generation networks
  • 6. Sector regulation and investment incentives : the European experience
  • 7. Pricing of complements and network effects
  • 8. Spillovers and network neutrality
  • 9. Network neutrality and sector performance : exploring policy options with simulation methods
  • 10. Mobile communications : economic and social impact
  • 11. Regulator incentives and third generation national mobile telecommunications market entry
  • 12. Licensing options for digital dividend spectrum : an Australian perspective
  • 13. Two-sided markets with substitution : mobile termination revisited
  • 14. Policy implications of asymmetric termination rate regulation in Europe
  • 15. The absence of data for measuring the economic impact of IT in the US