Humpty-Dumpty? Competitive Effects of the AT&T – BellSouth Merger

March, 2006      Download this brief (PDF).

By Gregory L. Rosston

Professor Rosston is the Deputy Director of SIEPR. He is also a Research Fellow at SIEPR and Visiting Lecturer in Economics at Stanford University. Professor Rosston's research has focused on industrial organization, antitrust and regulation. He has written numerous articles on competition in local telecommunications, implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, auctions and spectrum policy. Prior to joining Stanford University, Dr. Rosston served as Deputy Chief Economist of the Federal Communications Commission and helped with the design and implementation of the FCC's spectrum auctions.