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• What About Microeconomics?

  Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  Robert Crandall and Clifford Winston respond to Paul Krugman's recent New York Times Magazine article which laments the current state of macroeconomics. The authors call attention to the fact that Krugman did not mention the state of microeconomics which, they argue, has not suffered any serious intellectual setbacks from the current Great Recession.

• Detroit Needs a Selloff, Not a Bailout

  Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Robert Crandall and Clifford Winston discuss a proposal for automakers they think will cost taxpayers less and, in the long run, be more beneficial to labor and the overall economy than either a straight bailout or bankruptcy.

• Airlines are Safer than Ever

  Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  Flights on U.S. airlines have never been more crowded, but despite recent reports, Clifford Winston and Robert Crandall argue, U.S. airlines have never been safer.

• Extending Deregulation

  Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:10:42 GMT

  Few industries remain subject to classic economic regulation in the United States. Senior Fellow Robert Crandall says the next president should help remove some of the controls left on these industries in order to help promote economic expansion.

• Technical Difficulties

  Thu, 08 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Robert Crandall discusses telecommunications regulatory policies in the European Union and critiques a proposal to enforce functional separation on the broadband market.

• Don't Drink the CAFE Kool-Aid

  Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Robert W. Crandall and Hal J. Singer argue against new CAFE standards on Detroit automakers being considered by Congress.

• Telecom Time Warp

  Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Robert Crandall and Hal Singer argue that, eventually, either the FCC or the courts will realize that regulating competitive telecommunications networks for the benefit of select content providers is not in the interest of American consumers.

• The Effects of Broadband Deployment on Output and Employment: A Cross-sectional Analysis of U.S. Data

  Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Robert Crandall, William Lehr and Robert Litan discuss how high-speed internet access has developed rapidly in the last decade and is increasingly viewed as essential infrastructure for our global information economy.

• Extending Deregulation: Make the U.S. Economy More Efficient

  Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Since the 1970s, deregulation has succeeded in increasing overall economic welfare and sharply reducing prices, generally by about 30 percent, for transportation—including air travel, rail transportation, and trucking—and for natural gas and telecommunications. Few industries remain subject to classic economic regulation in the United States.

• Unfriendly Skies

  Mon, 18 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Robert Crandall and Clifford Winston argue that policy-makers take the wrong approach in opposing recent merger attempts in the airline industry. While enforcement of antitrust laws can improve consumer welfare in some cases, Crandall and Winston conclude that government efforts to prevent such mergers "do little to improve consumer welfare and sometimes actually reduce it."

• Regulating Emissions of Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act

  Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Policy Brief by Robert Litan (10/2006)

• The AT&T/BellSouth Merger: The Breakdown of 'Breakup'

  Thu, 09 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  This week's stunning announcement by AT&T that it had reached an agreement to acquire BellSouth for $67 billion is surely an affront to proponents of a strong antitrust policy for two reasons.

• Bringing Real Estate Brokerage into the 21st Century

  Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Robert W. Hahn and Robert E. Litan review how the real estate industry is being challenged by new sources of competition and how antitrust regulators are zeroing in on what is viewed as anti-competitive practices.

• Auto Industry on the Line

  Mon, 23 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Robert W. Crandall and Clifford Winston, Detroit Free Press (5/23/05)

• Auto Industry on the Line as it Juggles Efficiency, Profits

  Mon, 23 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Robert W. Crandall and Clifford Winston argue that trade protection can no longer shield the U.S. auto producers from foreign efficiency.

• Competition and Chaos : U.S. Telecommunications since the 1996 Telecom Act

  Fri, 15 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  
  In Competition and Chaos, Robert W. Crandall analyzes the impact of the 1996 Telecommunications Act on economic welfare in the United States and how the act and its antecedents affected the major telecommunications providers.

• The End of the Road for Long-Distance Companies...and Most Telecom Regulation

  Tue, 15 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Robert W. Crandall reviews the telecommunication regulatory debate with a merger proposal from the two largest companies.

• The Proper Direction for Telecommunications Reform Legislation

  Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  In his presentation, Robert W. Crandall argues that regulators should be required to "open up" the local market through mandated unbundling, allowing entrants an entry toe-hold on the way to facilities-based competition.

• Internet Telephones: Hanging up on Regulation?

  Wed, 01 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Robert W. Crandall, Robert W. Hahn, Robert E. Litan, and Scott Wallsten examine whether there is a need to regulate Voice over Internet Protocol.

• Charles Ferguson and the "Broadband Problem"

  Sat, 15 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Robert W. Crandall discusses Charles Ferguson’s book that advocates a major increase in government intervention in the U.S. market for high-speed, "broadband" Internet services.

• Bandwidth for the People

  Sat, 15 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Robert W. Crandall, Robert W. Hahn, Robert E. Litan, and Scott Wallsten discuss the important distinction between the economical and the uneconomical provision of broadband.

• Does Antitrust Policy Improve Consumer Welfare? Assessing the Evidence

  Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Robert W. Crandall and Clifford Winston review the literature and assesses the effects of antitrust policy and enforcement on consumer welfare.

• Do Unbundling Policies Discourage CLEC Facilities-Based Investment

  Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Robert W. Crandall, The B.E. Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy (4/29/04)

• Costly Exercises in Futility: Breaking Up Firms to Increase Competition

  Mon, 15 Dec 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Robert W. Crandall argues that the government should not try to break up telecommunication companies to make the industry more competitive, but instead, the government should let the companies compete among themselves for customers.

• Does Antitrust Policy Improve Consumer Welfare?

  Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Robert W. Crandall and Clifford Winston, Journal of Economic Perspectives (Fall 2003)

• An End to Economic Regulation?

  Mon, 21 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Chapter from ""Competition and Regulation in Utility Markets"" by Robert W. Crandall (7/21/03)

• Broadband Communications

  Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Robert W. Crandall for The Handbook of Telecommunications Economics, Vol. II (5/03)

• No Two-tier Telecoms

  Fri, 07 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  An opinion piece by Robert Crandall, March 7, 2003

• The Decline in Manufacturing Jobs In the Syracuse Metropolitan Area

  Thu, 06 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Robert W. Crandall

• Debating U.S. Broadband Policy: An Economic Perspective

  Sat, 01 Mar 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  Policy Brief #117 by Robert W. Crandall (March 2003)

• Broadband : Should We Regulate High-Speed Internet Access?

  Mon, 13 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT

  
  There is widespread concern in the telecommunications industry that public policy may be impeding the continued development of the Internet into a high-speed communications network. Broadband policy is controversial in large part because of the diffe

• The Migration of U.S. Manufacturing and Its Impact on the Buffalo Metropolitan Area

  Thu, 06 Jun 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Robert W. Crandall (6/22/02)

• A Somewhat Better Connection

  Sat, 01 Jun 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Robert W. Crandall (Summer 2002)

• Injunctive Relief in Sherman Act Monopolization Cases

  Wed, 24 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Robert W. Crandall and Kenneth G. Elzinga (4/24/2002)

• Exporting U.S. Telecom Policy: The Case of Local Telecommunications

  Wed, 12 Dec 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Robert W. Crandall (12/12/01)

• The Digital Divide: Bridging the Divide Naturally

  Sat, 01 Dec 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Review article by Robert W. Crandall (Winter 2001)

• Is Structural Separation of Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers Necessary for Competition?

  Fri, 28 Sep 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Robert W. Crandall and J. Gregory Sidak (9/28/01)

• CO2 Controls Are a Bad Idea, 'Voluntary' or Not

  Tue, 31 Jul 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Robert W. Crandall, Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution, in the Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2001

• The Failure of Structural Remedies in Sherman Act Monopolization Cases

  Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Robert W. Crandall takes a look back over more than a century of Sherman Act case law to see how frequently structural relief has been imposed in monopolization cases that involve a single firm that has not attained its market position through merger or from conspiring with other firms.

• Relieve the Spectrum Shortage

  Thu, 15 Feb 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings economists and others encourage the Federal Communications Commission to advance the public interest by eliminating barriers to the productive use of radio spectrum.

• National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) Brief

  Sat, 15 Jul 2000 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings scholars and other economists argue that it would be imprudent not to consider costs in the setting of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards.

• Who Pays for Universal Service? : When Telephone Subsidies Become Transparent

  Thu, 22 Jun 2000 00:00:00 GMT

  
  The authors show that the widely-defended practice known as &universal service& forces its intended beneficialries—poor and rural households—to pay far more for telephone service than they would if prices reflected the true cost of service.

• If It Ain't Broke, Don't Break It Up

  Wed, 14 Jun 2000 00:00:00 GMT

  If It Ain't Broke, Don't Break It Upr, opinion in The Wall Street Journal, June 14, 2000, by Robert W. Crandall, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

• Who's Afraid of the TV Networks?

  Thu, 09 Sep 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  Who's Afraid of the TV Networks?"" Wall Street Journal Opinion Piece by Robert Crandall, Senior Fellow, Economic Studies Program, The Brookings Institution.

• Whistling Past Big Steel's Graveyard

  Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  Whose network is it? What if the original local company wants to adapt it to new technologies or modify it to deliver new services, but these changes are incompatible with the new lessee's operations? The railroad would not alter its track gauge or r

• Managed Competition in U.S. Telecommunications

  Mon, 15 Mar 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  Robert W. Crandall writes about the dangers that are now apparent in the "deregulation" of telecommunications.

• The Telecom Act's Phone-y Deregulation

  Wed, 27 Jan 1999 00:00:00 GMT

  The Telecom Act's Phone-y Deregulation

• The 1996 Telecom Act Three Years Later

  Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:00:00 GMT

  Update of Are We Deregulating Telephone Services? THINK AGAIN, policy brief by Robert Crandall

• Will This Merger Open Markets?

  Fri, 26 Jun 1998 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Robert Crandall, The Brookings Institution

• The Costly Pursuit of the Impossible

  Sun, 01 Jun 1997 00:00:00 GMT

  Brookings Review article by Robert Crandall (Summer 1997)

• Are We Deregulating Telephone Services? THINK AGAIN

  Sat, 01 Mar 1997 00:00:00 GMT

  Policy Brief #13, by Robert W. Crandall (March 1997)

• Cable TV : Regulation or Competition?

  Thu, 11 Apr 1996 00:00:00 GMT

  
  This book examines the case of reregulating cable television and shows that viewers gained far more than they lost during the brief deregulatory era because cable services expanded so rapidly in the deregulated environment.

• Talk is Cheap : The Promise of Regulatory Reform in North American Telecommunications

  Tue, 13 Feb 1996 00:00:00 GMT

  
  This book reviews the recent changes in the structure of U.S. and Canadian telecommunications industries and the changes in regulatory policy on both sides of the border. The authors contend that for decades misguided regulation of the telephone sect

• The Extra Mile : Rethinking Energy Policy for Automotive Transportation

  Wed, 08 Mar 1995 00:00:00 GMT

  
  In this volume, Pietro S. Nivola and Robert W. Crandall argue that a higher levy on gasoline would be a more efficient way of reducing the consumption and importation of oil in the U.S. than existing automotive fuel economy standards.

• Manufacturing on the Move

  Wed, 02 Jun 1993 00:00:00 GMT

  
  In this book, Robert Crandall examines the causes of industrial migration from the old Rust Belt in the Midwest to the new Sunbelt of the southern states.

• After the Breakup : U.S. Telecommunications in a More Competitive Era

  Wed, 30 Jan 1991 00:00:00 GMT

  
  In this book, Robert W. Crandall examines the effects of the AT&T breakup and weighs the costs and benefits to the residential and business consumer.

• Changing the Rules : Technological Change, International Competition and Regulation in Communications

  Wed, 22 Mar 1989 00:00:00 GMT

  
  The papers in this book were first presented at a conference organized by Robert Crandall and Kenneth Flamm, pulling together a group of industry professionals and scholars to address the far-reaching implications of the upheaval in the communication