Policy and Regulatory Analysis
We offer clients expertise underpinned by both economic skills and real experience in policy and regulatory environments. We are frequently called upon to undertake analyses as narrow in scope as an individual rate case or as expansive as the future of the telecommunications industry.
Our extensive experience in policy and regulatory analysis has included cost studies, review of the costs and benefits of wireless regulation, competition analyses, review of the federal telephone excise tax, and advice on new network unbundling rules.
Our analyses are grounded in accurate data, sound methodologies, and extensive knowledge of both telecommunications and media. We have provided econometric analysis of the correlation between prices for network elements and industry investment, estimates of damages for litigants, analyses of efficient use and allocation of spectrum, estimations of the effects of long-distance company entry into states, real options impact analyses, competitive policy evaluations, and assessment of the impact of must-carry requirements on digital broadcast satellite providers.