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Competition Policy in the Telecom Industry: When the Sherman Act Meets the Telecommunications Act, Who Wins?

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Monday December 2002
8:30 A.M. - 8:55 A.M. Registration
8:55 A.M. - 9:00 A.M. Introductory Remarks
Thomas W. Hazlett, Manhattan Institute
9:00 A.M. -10:30 A.M. Panel I: Regulation and the Financial Collapse
Moderator: Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago Law School
Thomas W. Hazlett, Manhattan Institute
An Unsustainable Model of Regulated Competition
Harold Furchtgott-Roth, American Enterprise Institute
The Failure to Implement the Telecommunications Act of 1996
Eli Noam, Columbia University
The Emerging Cyclicality of the Telecom Sector and Its Implications for Public Policy
Peter W. Huber, Manhattan Institute
A Suicide Pact for the Telecommunications Sector
10:30 A.M. - 10:45 A.M. Break
10:45 A.M. - 12:00 P.M. Panel II: Rationalizing Competition Policy
Moderator: Thomas W. Hazlett, Manhattan Institute
Doug Lichtman, University of Chicago Law School, Implicit Immunity
Richard A. Epstein, University of Chicago Law School
Standing and Privity in Antitrust Litigation: New Uses for Old Doctrines
Randal C. Picker, University of Chicago Law School
Understanding Statutory Bundles: Does the Sherman Act Come with the 1996 Telco Act?
12:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M. RECEPTION AND LUNCHEON SPEAKER
Alfred Kahn, Cornell University
The State of Deregulation in December 2002

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