The New Investment Theory of Real Options and its Implication for Telecommunications Economics

Randall B, Lowe Piper & Marbury, L.L.R The issue of costing and pricing in the telecommunications industry has been hotly debated for the last twenty years. Indeed, we are still wrestling today over the cost of the local exchange for access by interexchange and competitive local ex­ change carri...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Alleman, James (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Noam, Eli (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1999.
Σειρά:Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy ; 34
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Real Options: An Overview
  • Real options: A primer
  • Real options applications in the telecommunications industry
  • Does practice follow principle? Applying real options principles to proxy costs in U.S. telecommunications
  • Real options: What telecommunications can learn from electric power
  • Principles
  • Cost models: Comporting with principles
  • The design of forward looking cost models for local exchange telecommunications networks
  • Forward looking telecommunications cost models
  • Implications of Neglecting Real Options
  • An institutional perspective on assessing real options values in telecommunications cost models
  • Real options applications for telecommunications deregulation
  • The poverty of cost models, the wealth of real options
  • The forecasting implications of telecommunications cost models
  • The effect of sunk costs in telecommunications regulation
  • Real Options: Evaluations
  • Real options and the costs of the local telecommunications network
  • Option Value Analysis and Telephone Access Charges
  • Rethinking the implications of “real options” theory for the U.S. local telephone industry
  • Application of real options theory to TELRIC models: real trouble or red herring
  • Discussion: A view from outside the industry
  • Rejoinder
  • Summary/Conclusions
  • Real options, false choices: A final word.