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Incentive Regulation in Practice: A Massachusetts Case Study

The Review of Network Economics

Vol. 2, Issue 4 - December 2003, pp 451-465



Author
  Paul B. Vasington
Vice President, Analysis Group, Inc.

E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract
  The Massachusetts public utility commission has pursued policies to promote competition and efficient pricing in telecommunications since the divestiture of AT&T; in 1984. As part of this effort, the Massachusetts Commission approved incentive regulation for AT&T; and Verizon - the only two companies for which prices were regulated in the state. This article is a case study of what preceded the incentive plans, how the plans themselves were decided, and what came after.

Keywords: incentive regulation, telecommunications, Massachusetts public utility commission

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