Product Description: The use of class actions as a regulatory mchanism has been subject of controversy. ALthough there is some evidence that such liltigation has been on the rise, this is the first emipircal study to collect reliable data and analyze recent trends in this area.

Product Description: The objective of the second volume of the Handbook of Telecommunications Economics is to highlight the economic aspects of the evolution of communications technologies beyond the basic fixed-line telephony infrastructure that was covered in Volume 1...read more

Product Description: This volume provides detailed reviews and commentaries on these contemporary changes in the landscape of a major industry from an academic perspective, yet in an analytical manner that will be appreciated by a wide audience of academics and professionals with an interest in the telecommunications industry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Public enterprises remain of fundamental importance in advanced economies, and this volume characterises them as hybrids, influenced by markets and ministries.

Product Description: At the beginning of 2000, the U.S. economy was enjoying the longest period of sustained growth and economic prosperity in its history. According to The Internet Upheaval, part of the explanation for this phenomenon is a consequence of how information technologies, in particular the Internet, are upending fundamental economic and social structures...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This text captures the effects of alternative telecommunications technologies offering access to the switched telephone networks in the marketplace for local telecommunications services.

Product Description: This policy-oriented book looks at the effects of and reasons behind public enterprise divestiture in economies where capitalism and socialism are combined. Case studies from Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, and the United Kingdom are used to assess the basic question of whether or not a country is better or worse off as a result of the divestiture of its public enterprises...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This policy-oriented book looks at the effects of and reasons behind public enterprise divestiture in economies where capitalism and socialism are combined. Case studies from Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, and the United Kingdom are used to assess the basic question of whether or not a country is better or worse off as a result of the divestiture of its public enterprises...read more

The past decade has seen a surge of pricing innovations in the U.S. telecommunications industry. This book systematically reviews recent innovations in the economic theory of pricing and extends results to the conditions that characterize telecommunications markets. The authors develop and illuminate the normative theory of pricing--with its objectives of social welfare, economic efficiency and fairness--and compare it with the practice of business and regulators. (view table of contents)

Product Description: First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.