Regulation and Entry into Telecommunications Markets: 0 - Hardcover

De Bijl, Paul; Peitz, Martin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521808375 ISBN 13: 9780521808378

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Synopsis

This book analyses telecommunications markets from early to mature competition, filling the gap between the existing economic literature on competition and the real-life application of theory to policy. Paul De Bijl and Martin Peitz focus on both the transitory and the persistent asymmetries between telephone companies, investigating the extent to which access price and retail price regulation stimulate both short- and long-term competition. They explore and compare various settings, such as non-linear versus linear pricing, facilities-based versus unbundling-based or carrier-select-based competition, non-segmented versus segmented markets. On the basis of their analysis, De Bijl and Peitz then formulate guidelines for policy. This book is a valuable resource for academics, regulators and telecommunications professionals. It is accompanied by simulation programs devised by the authors both to establish and to illustrate their results.

About this title

About the Authors

PAUL DE BIJL is currently a senior staff member at the Ministry of Finance, The Hague.

MARTIN PEITZ is Heisenberg Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, affiliated to the University of Frankfurt.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521808375
• ISBN 13: 9780521808378
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292