Research Catalog

Title

The new investment theory of real options and its implication for telecommunications economics / edited by James Alleman, Eli Noam.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic, 1999.

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Additional Authors

• Alleman, James H.
• Noam, Eli M.

Description

xv, 280 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Topics in regulatory economics and policy series

Uniform Title

Topics in regulatory economics and policy.

Subjects

• Telecommunication > Costs
• Real options (Finance)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface / Randall B. Lowe -- Introduction and Overview / James Alleman -- Real Options: An Overview. 1. Real Options: A Primer / Lenos Trigeorgis. 2. Real Options Applications in the Telecommunications Industry / Sanjai Bhagat. 3. Does Practice Follow Principle? Applying Real Options Principles to Proxy Costs in U.S. Telecommunications / Mark A. Jamison. 4. Real Options: What Telecommunications Can Learn from Electric Power / Todd Strauss -- Principles. 5. Cost Models: Comporting with Principles / Richard Emmerson. 6. The Design of Forward Looking Cost Models for Exchange Telecommunications Networks / William Sharkey. 7. Forward Looking Telecommunications Cost Models / Timothy J. Tardiff -- Implications of Neglecting Real Options. 8. An Institutional Perspective on Assessing Real Options Values in Telecommunications Cost Models / Barbara A. Cherry. 9. Real Options Applications for Telecommunications Deregulation / Greg Hallman and Chris McClain.
• 10. The Poverty of Cost Models, the Wealth of Real Options / James Alleman. 11. The Forecasting Implications of Telecommunications Cost Models / Timothy J. Tardiff. 12. The Effect of Sunk Costs in Telecommunications Regulation / Jerry Hausman -- Real Options: Evaluations. 13. Real Options and the Costs of the Local Telecommunications Network / Nicholas Economides. 14. Option Value Analysis and Telephone Access Charges / William J. Baumol. 15. Rethinking the Implications of "Real Options" Theory for the U.S. Local Telephone Industry / Richard N. Clarke. 16. Application of Real Options Theory to TELRIC Models: Real Trouble or Red Herring / Michael D. Pelcovits. 17. Discussion: A View from Outside the Industry / Lenos Trigeorgis. 18. Rejoinder / Jerry Hausman. 19. Real Options, False Choices: A Final Word / Eli Noam.

ISBN

0792377346

OCLC

• 42733825
• ocm42733825

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries