Mandated access and the make-or-buy decision: The case of local telecommunications competition

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 28-47

  Beard, T Randolph ^a   Ford, George S ^b   Koutsky, Thomas M ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies   (United States)

Author keywords

1996 Telecommunications Act; Competition; Essential facilities; Telecommunications; Unbundled Network Elements; Unbundling; Utilities

Indexed keywords

EID: 11844292817     PISSN: 10629769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.qref.2004.01.001     Document Type: Article

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