TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laffont,Jean-Jacques
AU  - Tirole, Jean
TI  - Competition in telecommunications
SN  - 0262621509
U1  - 384.041 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Competition
KW  - Telecommunication
N1  - The book analyzes regulatory reform and the emergence of competition in network industries using the state-of-the-art theoretical tools of industrial organization, political economy and the economics of incentives. The following sections focus on four central aspects of the recent deregulatory movement: the introduction of incentive regulation; one-way access (access given by a local network to the providers of complementary services); the special nature of competition in an industry requiring two-way access (whereby competing networks depend on the mutual termination of calls); and universal service, in particular the two leading contenders for the competitively neutral provision of universal service: the use of engineering models to compute subsidies and the design of universal service auctions. The book concludes with a discussion of the Internet and regulatory institutions
ER  -