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Testing the Effectiveness of Regulation and Competition on Cable Television Rates

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John S. Ying () (Department of Economics,University of Delaware)
Mary T. Kelly () (Department of Economics, Villanova University)

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Regulation of the cable television industry was marked by remarkable periods of deregulation, re-regulation, and re-deregulation during the 1980s and 1990s. Using FCC firm-level survey data spanning 1993 to 2001, we model and econometrically estimate the effect of regulation and competition on cable rates. Our calculations indicate that while regulation lowered rates for small system operators, it raised them for medium and large systems. Meanwhile, competition consistently decreased rates from 5.6 to 8.8 percent, with even larger declines during periods of regulation. Our results suggest that competition is more effective than regulation in containing cable prices.

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Paper provided by University of Delaware, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 07-07.

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Keywords: cable rates; regulation; competition;

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L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
L96 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Telecommunications

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