Background
Sidak, Joseph Gregory was born on August 17, 1955 in Des Moines. Son of Joseph Glen and Vernice Lucille Sidak.
( Restrictions on foreign investment in U.S. telecommunic...)
Restrictions on foreign investment in U.S. telecommunications firms have harmed the interests of American consumers and investors, argues J. Gregory Sidak in this convincing study. Sidak shows why these restrictions, originally intended to protect America from the perils of wireless telegraphy by foreign agents, should be repealed. Basing his analysis on legislative history, statutory and constitutional interpretation, and finance and trade theory, Sidak shows that these restrictions no longer serve their national security purpose (if they ever did). Instead they deny American consumers lower prices and more robust innovation, hamper access of American investors to foreign telecommunications markets, and unconstitutionally impinge on freedom of speech. Sidak's study encompasses the Telecommunications Act of 1996, recent global mergers such as British Telecom-MCI, and the 1997 World Trade Organization agreement to liberalize trade in telecommunications services.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226756262/?tag=2022091-20
(Local telephone companies have long been extensively regu...)
Local telephone companies have long been extensively regulated as natural monopolies. Technological innovation and the prospect for lifting regulatory barriers to entry, however, now expose at least some portions of the local exchange to competition from cable television systems, wireless telephony, and rival wireline systems. William Baumol and Gregory Sidak examine how telecommunications regulation can be designed to adapt automatically as the market becomes increasingly competitive and ask, if certain parts of local telephony remain naturally monopolistic, how can regulators protect consumers against cross-subsidy, predatory pricing, and price discrimination? How should a local exchange carrier that is a natural monopoly in some activities be permitted to price necessary inputs it sells to its competitors in the market for the final telecommunications products? The economic analysis that the authors employ to answer these questions can apply to any network industry.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262023695/?tag=2022091-20
(This book addresses deregulatory policies that threaten t...)
This book addresses deregulatory policies that threaten to reduce or destroy the value of private property in network industries without any accompanying payment of just compensation, policies that are termed "deregulatory takings." The authors further consider the problem of renegotiation of the regulatory contract, which changes the terms and conditions of operation of utility companies. They argue that constitutional protections of private property from takings, as well as efficient remedies for contractual breach, provide the proper foundation for the competitive transformation of the network industries.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521591597/?tag=2022091-20
(This study shows that a transmission price, the price for...)
This study shows that a transmission price, the price for sending electricity over the transmission grid, can be determined in a manner that is compatible with economic efficiency and clearly neutral in its effects upon all competitors in electricity generation.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0844739227/?tag=2022091-20
(This text examines the justifications for the publicly-pr...)
This text examines the justifications for the publicly-protected postal monopoly and its public ownership and control. In their economic and legal analysis, the authors demonstrate the need to prevent extension of the postal monopoly into competitive markets.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0844739502/?tag=2022091-20
Sidak, Joseph Gregory was born on August 17, 1955 in Des Moines. Son of Joseph Glen and Vernice Lucille Sidak.
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Stanford University, 1977. Master of Arts in Economics, Stanford University, 1981. Juris Doctor, Stanford University, 1981.
Law clerk to Judge Richard Posner United States Court Appeals (7th circuit), Chicago, 1981-1982. Senior counsel, economist Executive Office of President, Council Economic Advisers, Washington, 1986-1987. Deputy general counsel Federal Communications Commission, 1987-1989.
President, Chief Executive Officer Criterion Economics, Limited liability company, since 1999.
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Married Melinda Ledden. Children: Gunnar, Christian, Colin.