The following readings are recommended:

Journal Articles:

• Tuthill, L. (1996). Users' rights? Telecommunications Policy 20(2):89-99.
• Globerman, S. (1995). Foreign ownership in telecommunications: a policy perspective. Telecommunications Policy 19(1):21-28.
• Blanchard, C. (1995). Telecommunications regulation in New Zealand: light-handed regulation and the Privy Council's judgement. Telecommunications Policy 19(6):465-475.
• Drahos, P. & Richard A. (1995). Telecommunications and investment in the great supranational regulatory game. Telecommunications Policy 19(8):619-635.
• Darch, C. (1995). The economics of information and the information society: is social equity still on the agenda in the 1990's? Innovation June (10):3-12.
• Horwitz, Robert B. (1994). The uneasy relation between political and economic reform in south Africa: the case of telecommunications. Telecommunications Policy 19 (5): 413-426.
• Miller, J & Hodge, J. (1997). What should a national IT policy cover? As I see it. Information technology review 4 (3):17-19.
• Melody, WH (ed). (1997). Telecom reform: principles, policies and regulatory practices. Lyngby: Technical University of Denmark.
• Tyler, M & Bednarzyk, S. (1993). Regulatory institutions and processes in telecommunications: an international study of alternatives. Telecommunications Policy 17(9): 650-676.
• Hays, SP. (1981). Political choice in regulatory Administration, in ed. McCraw, TK. Regulation in perspective: Historical essays. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
• Hills, J. (1991). Regulation, politics and telecommunications. (ed) Chamoux, JP. Deregulating regulators? Communication nPlicies for the 90's. Oxford: IOS press.
• Blanchard, C. (1995). Telecommunications regulation in New Zealand: light-handed regulation and the Privy Council's judgement. Telecommunications Policy 19(6):465-475.
• Tyler, M & Bednarzyk, S. (1993). Regulatory institutions and processes in telecommunications: an international study of alternatives. Telecommunications Policy 17(9): 650-676.
• Majone, G. (1990). Deregulation or Re-regulation: Regulatory refprm in Europe and the United States. Pinter Publishers: London.
• Melody, WH (ed). (1997). Telecom reform: principles, policies and regulatory practices. Lyngby: Technical University of Denmark.(See esp. chapter 2 pp. 13-27).
• Scanlan, M. (1994). Introducing competition into the telecommunications network: is competition law rather than regulation the answer? Telecommunications Policy 18:432-434.
• Weisman, D. (1994). Asymmetrical regulation: principle for emerging competition in local service markets. Telecommunications Policy 18: 499-505.
• Baldwin,R, Scott,C, and Hood, C. (1998). A Reader on regulation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Alexander, Ian, and Timothy Irwin. (1996). "Price Caps, Rate-of-Return Regulation, and the Cost of Capital," Public Policy for the Private Sector No. 87, The World Bank, September 1996.
• Berg, Sanford. (2002) Introduction to Fundamentals of Incentive Regulation. Mimeo, Public Utility Research Center, University of Florida, USA.
• Richard Green, "Utility Regulation - A Critical Path for Revising Price Controls," Public Policy for the Private Sector No. 133, The World Bank, November 1997.
• Lewis, Tracy, and Chris Garmon. (2002) Fundamentals of Incentive Regulation. Mimeo, Public Utility Research Center, University of Florida, USA.
• Small, John P. (1988) Light-Handed Regulation of Network Industries in New Zealand, Mimeo, Public Utility Research Center, University of Florida, USA.

Non-Electronic References

• Baldwin, Robert, and Martin Cave. (1999) Understanding Regulation : Theory, Strategy, and Practice. Oxford : Oxford University Press.
• Bollard, Alan. (1996) The New Zealand Solution: An Appraisal, Paper presented at the Institute of Economic Affairs Lectures on Regulation, London School of Business.
• Laffont, Jean-Jacques, and Jean Tirole. (2000) Competition in Telecommunications. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
• Newbery, David. (1999) Privatization, Restructuring, and Regulation of Network Utilities. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
• Sappington, David E. M. 1994. "Designing Incentive Regulation," Review of Industrial Organization, 9, 245-272.
• Tétrault, M and Intven, H. 2002. Telecommunications Regulation Handbook. (Modules 1-3)
• Peacock, A. 1984. The regulation game: How British and West German Companies Bargain with government. New York: Blackwell Publishers
• Alexander, DL. 1997. Telecommunications Policy: Have regulators dialled the wrong number? London: Praeger ( See especially chapter 7 : Price Caps in the U.S. Telephone industry: How real is reform? And chapter 5 The FCC spectrum auctions: an early assesment).
• Walters, P & Leonard, P. 1996. Regulatory models for reforming telecom: lessons from the Australian experience. (Discussion paper)
• Ayres, I & Braithwaite, J. 1992. Responsive Regulation : transcending the deregulation debate. New York: Oxford University Press. (See especially chapter 4: Enforced self-regulation.)
• Sappington, DEM. & Wrisman,DL. 1996. Designing incentive regulation for the telecommunications industry. London: MIT Press
• McCraw, TK. 1998. Regulation in perspective: Historical essays. Boston: Harvard University Press.
• Laffont, J-J. & Tirole, J. 2000. Competition in Telecommunications. Cambridge: The MIT press