Product Description: In this in-depth study, Damro explains the creation of a formal cooperative framework for preventing disputes in transatlantic competition policy. The findings suggest that, while regulators remain constrained by domestic institutions, they play an important role in explaining why the formal transatlantic cooperative framework is largely a discretionary one, created through non-treaty international agreements...read more

'Examines how the 1996 Telecommunications Act and its antecedents have affected the major telecommunications providers and analyzes the act's effect on economic welfare in the United States'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: CLEC is an insider’s view of the rise and fall of competition in the local exchange business. Competition was legislated by Congress and funded by Wall Street. The years from 1996 to 2000 saw the creation of more than 250 facilities based companies operating in more than 100 American cities...read more

Product Description: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 envisioned a competitive free-for-all in the U.S. telecommunications industry with removal of barriers to entry in local telecommunications markets and the lifting of the artificial restrictions that kept the Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) out of the interLATA long-distance market...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This work considers the potential effects of competition in the natural gas pipeline industry. Contrary to published studies and government reports, this study concludes that federal regulation in the industry is no longer necessary to limit the market power of current pipeline suppliers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)