Expanding Competition in Regulated Industries

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Regulatory Moral Hazard

   • Dennis L. Weisman

   Pages 1-21

3. Transmission — Enabler of Wholesale Competition

   • Shimon Awerbuch, Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer

   Pages 23-40

4. Are Electricity Markets Getting Closer Together

   • Andrew N. Kleit

   Pages 41-54

5. Preventing Exclusion at the Bottleneck

   • Thomas P. Lyon

   Pages 55-82

6. Universal Service Obligation

   • Menahem Spiegel

   Pages 83-96

7. Dynamic Competition and Monopoly Regulation

   • Jerry Ellig, Daniel Lin

   Pages 97-115

8. Resale and the Growth of Competition in Wireless Telephony

   • Mark L. Burton, David L. Kaserman, John W. Mayo

   Pages 117-148

9. Are Residential Local Exchange Prices Too Low?

   • Agustin J. Ros, Karl McDermott

   Pages 149-168

10. Cost Standards for Efficient Competition

    • Timothy J. Tardiff

    Pages 169-190

11. Cost Efficiency and Technology of Rural Telephone Companies

    • Kent A. Currie

    Pages 191-207

Expanding Competition in Regulated Industries reviews the changing regulatory environment, notably incentive regulation and competition in regulated industries. Some of the major changes in electricity, gas, and telephone utilities allow for competition in local service through unbundling. This book is of interest to researchers, utility managers, regulatory commissions, and the Federal Government.

• Electricity Markets
• Monopol
• competition
• environment
• regulation
• utility

• Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University, Newark, USA

  Michael A. Crew

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