Industry Economics Conference 1999
Conference proceedings
This conference was organised by the Productivity Commission in conjunction with Monash University, was held in Melbourne on 12 and 13 July 1999. The themes of the conference were Regulation, Competition and Industry Structure. The conference proceedings were released on 27 October 1999.
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Cover. Copyright, Preface, Contents, Abbreviations and Explanations
SECTION 1 INCENTIVE REGULATION
1 Incentive regulation in the US telecommunications industry
John Panzar
SECTION 2 OVERVIEW OF RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN REGULATION
2 Issues in access
Stephen King and Rodney Maddock
3 Monopoly price regulation in Australia: assessing regulation so far
Peter Forsyth
4 Spot markets and independent system operators
John Robinson
SECTION 3 ASIA PRE AND POST CRISIS
5 Micro aspects of the Asian crisis
He-Ling Shi
6 'Perspiration' versus 'inspiration' in Asian industrialisation
Haryo Aswicahyono and Hall Hill
7 How did small and medium enterprises in Taiwan survive the crisis?
Chi Schive
SECTION 4 MARKET POWER MEASURES
8 Market power measures and their uses: where's the costs?
Catherine J. Morrison Paul
SECTION 5 INFLUENCE OF REGULATION ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPETITION
9 Telecommunications industry: price benchmarking evidence on competition
Chris Sayers
10 Effects of regulation on telecommunications competition
Brian Perkins
11 Discussant
Tom Amos
12 Alternative competitive models
Rob Lomdahl
13 Discussant
Joe Dimasi
SECTION 6 RAIL ACCESS ARRANGEMENTS
14 Effective competition on rail
Fred Affleck
15 Rail privatisation: lessons from the United Kingdom
Keith Trace
16 Rail access and rail reform
Stephen King and Rodney Maddock
APPENDICES
A Contributed papers
B Conference participants
