A large body of research on the interactions of telecommunications and transportation has
emerged in recent years, an outcome of the pace of development in electronics technology …

We present an empirical model of households' choices among local telephone service
options (for example, between flat-rate and measured service) and the interrelation of these …

The role of pricing policies in multiple service class networks is studied. An abstract
formulation of service disciplines and pricing policies that allows the interplay between …

The pervasive role of telecommunications in contemporary commerce is well documented,
and has dramatically increased the demand for services. Across the world, countries are …

The past decade has seen a surge of pricing innovations in the US telecommunications
industry. This book systematically reviews recent innovations in the economic theory of …

The economic impact of barriers to world trade and investment in services has been thought
impossible to measure. As a consequence, significant global policy initiatives such as the …

IN THIS PAPER I examine the regulatory and competitive environments in which four service
industries operate in Europe and Japan, suggesting how certain types of regulation and the …

Demand estimation and welfare analysis for telecommunications services have often been
plagued by apparent inconsistencies between actual consumer behavior and standard …

Federal and state regulatory agencies have traditionally used rate-ofreturn regulation to set
profit levels and rates for utilities. For example, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission …

We provide a general framework that covers many panel data models as special cases. A
Bayes solution to this general framework is derived, and its relation to many widely used …