- Visit
the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University,
where they track and analyze regulation, at csab.wustl.edu.
- Find
out what happened to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 at www.fcc.gov/telecom.html.
- To
find out how competition affects airfares, check the number of carriers
serving each of the following routes and the cheapest available airfare
per mile: (a) Detroit-Boston; (b) Pittsburgh-Washington; (c)
Minneapolis-Milwaukee; (d) Denver-Colorado Springs; (e) Charlotte-Atlanta;
(f) Las Vegas-Los Angeles. For information on carriers and fares,
check expedia.com or visit www.thetrip.com
and set up a free user's account.
- Visit
the Center for Advancement of Energy Markets at www.caem.org
to see how states differ in the extent of electricity deregulation
and price changes.
- The
Brookings Institution and the American Enterprise Institute have a
joint project to analyze regulatory programs at www.aei.brookings.org.
- This
article addresses Market Failures and Government Regulation: Is
the Cure Worse than the Disease? http://econedlink.org/lessons/index.cfm?lesson=EM40
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