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Book SynopsisThis book explores why the industrial organization of broadband ISPs, Internet backbone providers and content/application providers are in such turmoil.
Trade Review‘Due to their economic characteristics and also to their consequences on many aspects of collective life, information networks have always been at the edge of regulatory innovations and at the center of policy debates. The contributors of this volume combine long term visions of the factors determining regulatory policies with up-to-date analyses of technicalities to be dealt with, to provide the reader with an extended understanding of the issues and constraints shaping the future of digital networks.’ -- Eric Brousseau, Université Paris-Dauphine, France and the European University Institute, Italy
Table of ContentsContents: Foreword Introduction 1. Challenges of Institutional Governance for Network Infrastructures: Reinstitution and Expansion of Legal Innovations Barbara A. Cherry 2. Beyond Traditional Regulatory Models: Emerging Governance for New Networks Rob Albon 3. Government Oversight of Next Generation Wireless Networks Rob Frieden 4. Incentive Regulation, Investments and Technological Change Ingo Vogelsang 5. Policy and Regulation for Next Generation Networks Martin Cave 6. Sector Regulation and Investment Incentives: The European Experience Harald Gruber 7. Pricing of Complements and Network Effects Nicholas Economides and Brian Viard 8. Spillovers and Network Neutrality Christiaan Hogendorn 9. Network Neutrality and Sector Performance: Exploring Policy Options with Simulation Methods Kurt DeMaagd and Johannes M. Bauer 10. Mobile Communications: Economic and Social Impact Gerald R. Faulhaber 11. Regulator Incentives and Third Generation National Mobile Telecommunications Market Entry Gary Madden, Aaron Morey and Erik Bohlin 12. Licensing Options for Digital Dividend Spectrum: An Australian Perspective Benoît P. Freyens 13. Two-sided Markets with Substitution: Mobile Termination Revisited Jerry A. Hausman 14. Policy Implications of Asymmetric Termination Rate Regulation in Europe Edmond Baranes and Cuong Huong Vuong 15. The Absence of Data for Measuring the Economic Impact of IT in the US Shane Greenstein Index
