Leonard Waverman

THE FAILURE OF COMPETITIVE ENTRY INTO FIXED-LINE TELECOMMUNICATIONS: WHO IS AT FAULT? (2006)

Crandall, Robert W., Waverman, Leonard

Between 1998 and 2003, dozens of companies entered newly liberalized telecommunications markets in OECD countries. In Europe and North America, most of the entrants that attempted to use incumbents'...

THE FAILURE OF COMPETITIVE ENTRY INTO FIXED-LINE TELECOMMUNICATIONS: WHO IS AT FAULT? (2006)

Crandall, Robert W., Waverman, Leonard

Between 1998 and 2003, dozens of companies entered newly liberalized telecommunications markets in OECD countries. In Europe and North America, most of the entrants that attempted to use incumbents'...

Standardization versus Coverage in Wireless Telephone Networks (2001)

Gandal, Neil, Salant, David, Waverman, Leonard

The issue of market-based versus mandated standards has been addressed in many settings. In most settings in which network effects are present, compatibility across platforms has been a key...

The Interdependence of Communications and Data Processing: Issues in Economies of Integration and Public Policy

Donald D. Cowan, Leonard Waverman

In the past few years computers and communications have become closely related. In many computer systems presently in operation it is quite difficult to separate the communications and data...

Telephone Communications in Canada: Demand, Production, and Investment Decisions

A. Rodney Dobell, Lester D. Taylor, Leonard Waverman, Tsuang-Hua Liu

This paper presents a portion of an econometric model of the telecommunications industry in Canada, specifically dealing with demand, production, and investment decisions in the telephone sector....

The Effects of Public Ownership and Regulatory Independence on Regulatory Outcomes

Geoff Edwards, Leonard Waverman

We examine the effects of public ownership and regulatory agency independence on regulatory outcomes in EU telecommunications. Specifically, we study regulated interconnect rates paid by entrants to...

Productivity Growth in the Automobile Industry, 1970-1980: A Comparisonof Canada, Japan and the United States

Melvyn A. Fuss, Leonard Waverman

In this paper we calculate and analyze the automobile industries cost and productivity experience during the 1970 's in Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology,...

The State of the North American and Japanese Motor Vehicle Industries: A Partially Calibrated Model to Examine the Impacts of Trade Policy Changes

Melvyn Fuss, Steven Murphy, Leonard Waverman

In this paper we utilize a three component model of the automotive industry to simulate the impacts of various trade policy scenarios, such as changes in tariffs and quotas, on the U.S. and Canadian...

Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Development: A Simultaneous Approach

Lars-Hendrik Roller, Leonard Waverman

In this paper we investigate how telecommunications infrastructure affects economic growth. We use evidence from 21 OECD countries over a 20-year period to examine the impacts that telecommunications...

European Telecommunications Markets on the Verge of Full Liberalization.

Waverman, Leonard, Sirel, Esen

January 1, 1998 is the date when voice telephony is fully liberalized in most European countries. The process of privatization and liberalization has been uneven across Europe; actively embraced by...

The European Satellite Industry: Prospects for Liberalization

Neven, Damien J, Röller, Lars-Hendrik, Waverman, Leonard

This paper evaluates the effects of liberalizing access to the space sector, as currently envisaged by the EC Commission. We undertake an econometric evaluation of the degree of scale economies in...

Telecommunications Infrastructure And Economic Development: A Simultaneous Approach

Röller, Lars-Hendrik, Waverman, Leonard

This paper investigates how telecommunications infrastructure affects economic growth. This issue is important and has received considerable attention in the popular press concerning the creation of...

Telecommunications Infrastructure and Economic Development: A Simultaneous Approach

Lars-Hendrik Röller, Leonard Waverman

In this paper we investigate how telecommunications infrastructure affects economic growth. This issue is important and has received considerable attention in the popular press concerning the...

The Canada-U.S. Auto Pact of 1965: An Experiment in Selective Trade Liberalization

Melvyn Fuss, Leonard Waverman

In this paper we analyse the Canada-U.S. Auto Pact, a selective trade liberalization agreement which created a duty-free North American market for the major U.S. multinational automobile producers,...

The Extent and Sources of Cost and Efficiency Differences Between U.S. and Japanese Automobile Producers

Melvyn A. Fuss, Leonard Waverman

In this paper we present for the first time estimates of cost and efficiency differences between U.S. and Japanese producers based on an econometric cost function methodology rather than the...

Costs and Productivity in Automobile Production

Fuss,Melvyn A., Waverman,Leonard

Motor vehicles are prominent among the flows of exports and imports for Canada, Germany, Japan and the United States, and these trade flows are heavily influenced by the basic relative...

Costs and Productivity in Automobile Production

Fuss,Melvyn A., Waverman,Leonard

Motor vehicles are prominent among the flows of exports and imports for Canada, Germany, Japan and the United States, and these trade flows are heavily influenced by the basic relative...

Special Feature U.S.-Canadian Trade Agreement: An Energy Colloquium

Leonard Waverman, Andre Plourde, Arlon R. Tussing, Henry Lee, Jean-Thomas Bernard

The United States and Canada recently concluded a comprehensive agreement which calls for removing restrictions on trade between them, including energy. To explain the details of the energy portions...

How Might North American Oil and Gas Markets Have Performed with a Free Trade Agreement in 1970?

G. Campbell Watkins, Leonard Waverman

Deregulation on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border has made certain aspects of trade agreements largely superfluous in the near term. It is over the longer term that the impact of the NAFTA will...