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Traditional Telecommunications Networks |
Edited by Gary Madden, Professor of Economics and Director, Communication Economics and Electronic Markets Research Centre, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
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| 2003 |
384 pp |
Hardback |
978 1 84064 272 8 |
£115.00 |
on-line discount
£103.50 |
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This major new reference work provides a thorough and up-to-date survey and analysis of recent developments in the economics of telecommunications. The Handbook serves both as a source of reference and technical supplement for the field of telecommunications economics.
Volume I reviews the traditional literature to bring readers up-to-date on the current treatment of telecommunications economics. The coverage includes: demand, supply, costs, market structure, regulation, interconnection and universal service. Volume II is concerned with future developments that will arise in the digital era. The coverage includes: internet, electronic commerce, mobile voice and data transmission, point-to-point and multi-point communication, regulation, satellite services and universal service in the information age. Volume III examines the structure within which modern communications companies operate and evolve, and how corporations must account for multiple objectives associated with both national economic and social policy. The volume draws useful lessons from the recent corporate experience of major international telecommunications companies. The contributors explore the interaction of diversity in national approaches with the continuing need for international cooperation and coordination, which continues to be an important area of debate.
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Contents: Preface 1. On the Subadditivity of Cost Functions 2. Cost Function Issues and Estimation 3. Telecommunications Productivity 4. Competition in Local and Long-distance Telecommunications 5. Telecommunications Demand 6. Retail Telecommunications Pricing in the Presence of External Effects 7. Vertical Integration in Telecommunications 8. Global Competition in Telecommunications 9. US Settlement Reform: An Historical Review 10. Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Development 11. Universal Service Index
Contributors: J.H. Alleman, T.R. Beard, Y.M. Braunstein, L.R. Christensen, G. Coble-Neal, R.J. Cooper, W.E. Diewert, M.A. Einhorn, G.S. Ford, D.A. Galbi, B.E. Hermalin, M.L. Katz, M.E. Meitzen, M.I. Nadiri, B. Nandi, P.N. Rappoport, P.E. Schoech, L.D. Taylor, T.J. Wales, D.L. Weisman
View the author's website at
http://www.cbs.curtin.edu.au/research/ceem
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