Econ 430 Final Exam

CARLETON UNIVERSITY Department of Economics ECON 4302 Competition and Regulatory Policy

Instructor: D.G. McFetridge Fall Term 2011 Office: A806 Loeb Building Phone: [phone] ext. 3748 E-mail: [e-mail] Office Hours: Mondays, 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. and Thursdays, 11:30 a.m. – 12:30, or by appointment COURSE WEB SITE: www.carleton.ca/~dmcfet/courses PREREQUISITE: ECON 2030 with a grade of C- or higher or ECON 2003 (no longer offered) with a grade of C- or higher. COURSE FORMAT: Lectures: Thursdays, 8:35 a.m. - 11:25 a.m. Room: St. Patrick’s 400 EXAMINATIONS: There will be one midterm examination. It will be held in class from 9:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. on Thursday October 27, 2011. There will also be a 3-hour final examination
Deregulation of local exchange telephone services CRTC, “Canadian Telecommunications Policy Review” Submission to the Telecommunications Policy Review Panel, 2005 http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/publications/reports/t_review05.htm Telecommunications Policy Review Panel Final Report, 2006 http://www.telecomreview.ca/eic/site/tprp-gecrt.nsf/eng/h_rx00054.html CRTC Communications Monitoring Report, 2010 http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/publications/reports/PolicyMonitoring/2010/cmr.htm 11. Vertical de-integration of electric power generation and transmission in Ontario and Alberta Tim Brennan, “Generating the Benefits of Competition: Challenges and Opportunities in Opening Electricity Markets” C.D. Howe Institute Commentary No. 260, April 2008
Agricultural Supply Management in Canada Danielle Goldfarb, Making Milk: The Practices, Players and Pressures Behind Dairy Supply Management (Conference Board of Canada, November, 2009) http://www.conferenceboard.ca/documents.aspx?did=3294 13. Canadian content regulation in the age of the Internet Lawson Hunter, Edward Iacobucci and Michael Trebilcock, Scrambled Signals: Canadian Content Policy in a World of Technological Abundance (C.D. Howe Institute Commentary No.301, January, 2010) http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/commentary_301.pdf 14. Issues in Financial Regulation Phillipe Bergevin, “Change is in the Cards: Competition in the Canadian Debit Card Market” C.D. Howe Institute Backgrounder No.125, February, 2010 http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/backgrounder_125.pdf 15. Regulation and Internet Neutrality CRTC, Telecom Regulatory Policy 2009-657, “Review of internet traffic management practices of internet service providers” October, 2009 http://www.crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2009/2009-657.htm