This monograph shows that price discrimination not only exists in competitive markets but sometimes is a crucial feature of them.

Was the Environmental Protection Agency’s denial of the petition to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases from motor vehicles reasonable?

Congress has introduced several bills on net neutrality, but mostof themare likely to do more harm than good.

A group of leading economists provide their stance on U.S. broadband policy.

Bush became president after more people voted for Gore, thus maintaining the integrity of the Electoral College.

Stranded costs are those costs that electric utilities permitted to recover through their rates but whose recovery may be impeded or prevented by the advent of competition in the industry.

Professor William Baumol shows how regulators can be misled by oversimplified economic theory. For example, it is generally recognized that perfect competition is an artificial construct that rarely is approximated in reality. Yet it is sometimes treated as an appropriate guide to regulators, threatening to yield damaging rules. For example,...

This book discusseslocal competition in the telecommunications sector.