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Regulatory Restructuring and Incumbent Price Dynamics: The Case of U.S. Local Telephone Markets

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  • Christopher R. Knittel

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Prior to the Telecommunications Act of 1996, many U.S. states restructured their regulatory framework by replacing rate-of-return regulation with competition in both the local exchange service and local long-distance markets and adopting price regulation (price caps and price freezes). Using a panel data set of incumbent firm prices for three services, I investigate whether price regulation and differences in entry conditions affect incumbent operators' rate structures. I find that competition has prompted a significant amount of rate rebalancing by reducing the amount of cross-subsidization present in local telephone markets. In addition, the added flexibility of price cap regulation speeds the rate rebalance effects of competition. © 2004 President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Christopher R. Knittel, 2004. "Regulatory Restructuring and Incumbent Price Dynamics: The Case of U.S. Local Telephone Markets," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 86(2), pages 614-625, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:tpr:restat:v:86:y:2004:i:2:p:614-625
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