Networks in Telecommunications: Economics and Law - Softcover

Spulber, Daniel F.; Yoo, Christopher S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521673860 ISBN 13: 9780521673860

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Networks in Telecommunications addresses fundamental issues in discussions of regulatory policy by offering an integrated framework for understanding the economics and law of networks. It extends theories on network design associated with the mathematics of graph theory, which provides insights into the complex, systemic interrelationship between network components. It also applies the principles of transaction cost economics to analyze decisions about the appropriate boundaries of proprietary network architecture. The book introduces network theory to the study of the economics and law of telecommunications. The discussion opens up the black box of the cost function in telecommunications. The analysis also goes beyond the "network externalities" approach that focuses primarily on the size of networks. The book highlights the effects of network architecture and the tradeoffs inherent in network design

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Book Description

Networks in Telecommunications explores the economic and legal implications of network access in terms of both antitrust and regulation. The book documents a shift in regulatory policy in network industries from rate regulation to mandated access, as exemplified by the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

About the Author

Daniel F. Spulber is the Elinor Hobbs Distinguished Professor of International Business and Professor of Management Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management, where he has taught since 1990. He is also Professor of Law at the Northwestern University School of Law (Courtesy). Founding editor of the Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Professor Spulber has received eight National Science Foundation grants, three Searle Fund grants, and two Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation grants for economic research. Founder of Kellogg's International Business and Markets Program, his current research is in the area of international economics, industrial organization, management strategy, and law. He is the author of 11 other books, including The Theory of the Firm: Microeconomics with Endogenous Entrepreneurs, Firms, Markets, and Organization (2009), Global Competitive Strategy (2007), Market Microstructure: Intermediaries and the Theory of the Firm (1999), and Deregulatory Takings and the Regulatory Contract: The Competitive Transformation of Network Industries in the United States (with J. Gregory Sidak, 1997), all from Cambridge University Press, and Management Strategy (2004), The Market Makers (1998), and Regulation and Markets (1989).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521673860
• ISBN 13: 9780521673860
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 510