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Optimal Local Exchange Carrier Size

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  • Sumit K. Majumdar
  • Hsi-Hui Chang

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Optimal firm size and patterns of returns to scale among the local exchange companies in the U.S. telecommunications industry are estimated for the years: 1975, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987 and 1990. The independent companies display increasing returns to scale, while the Baby Bells display constant or decreasing returns to scale. The independent companies operate at a scale smaller than optimal size, while the Baby Bells operate at a scale greater than optimal size. Efficiencies can be gained by industry restructuring, by allowing independents to expand their size while the Baby Bells can be downsized to create smaller units.

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  • Sumit K. Majumdar & Hsi-Hui Chang, 1998. "Optimal Local Exchange Carrier Size," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 13(6), pages 637-649, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:revind:v:13:y:1998:i:6:p:637-649
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    1. Liao, Chun-Hsiung & Lin, Hsing-Yung, 2011. "Measuring operational efficiency of mobile operators in Japan and Korea," Japan and the World Economy, Elsevier, vol. 23(1), pages 48-57, January.
    2. Russell Pittman, 2001. "Vertical Restructuring of the Infrastructure Sectors of Transition Economies," Industrial Organization 0111002, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Sumit Majumdar, 1999. "Comparative Organizational Characteristics of Indian State-Owned Enterprises," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 15(2), pages 165-182, September.
    4. K. Mert Cubukcu & Jean-Michel Guldmann, 2008. "Geography and the costs of local telephone networks," The Annals of Regional Science, Springer;Western Regional Science Association, vol. 42(4), pages 821-842, December.

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