Assignment No. 1 till November 2nd.
Please examine the web-site of the two regulatory agencies below:
The Office of Telecommunications in Britain: OFTEL
The Federal Communications Commission FCC in the United States
Try to find according to which law they operate and compare their mission. Please answer through the e-mail to all the class
regulation@research.haifa.ac.il
Assignment No. 2 till November 15th.
Please study the web-site of the Israeli electricity regulator. Also please study the site of the course collaborative project
regulation@research.haifa.ac.il
Assignment No. 3 till November 29th.
Read the follwoing paper: Anderson, Douglass, State Regulation of Electric Utilities, in Wilson James (ed), The Politics of Regulation, Basic Books, New York, 1980.
Short description of the chapter:
During the past decade, the lives of few public officials have been more harried than those of state commissioners charged with the responsibility of regulating electric utilities. Caught between the demands of utilities to raise rates, of consumers to keep them down, and of environmentalists and others to "do something" about conservation and the energy crisis, commissions have been asked to mediate some of the most rancorous of recent domestic political disputes and to take on planning and pricing tasks that are historically unfamiliar to them. Explaining how state commissions have coped with these competing demands, especially in California and New York, with be a chief purpose of this chapter. Some perspective on recent changes can be gained through an evaluation of the forces that led to the establishment of electric utility regulation by the states.
Read the paper
Assignment No. 4
carry your own research on the development of the regulatory regime for electricity regulation in Israel. Use library and Internet material and bring it in a digital format in order to promote the class collaborative project On electricity Regulation
Assignment No. 5: Date 12, December 1999
Read the paper on the American Electricity Regimes
Please answer the following questions:
1. who are the major political forces who determine the shaped the American Electricity Regime from 1882-1980?.
2. Is there a change in the power of the different actors during the years?.
Assignment No. 6: Date 24, December 1999
Read the paper on the Israeli telecom reform (hebrew) in HTML format or in RTF format
If you have any comments or questions regarding the readings (for example, unfamiliar terms, please se-mail the classs instructor or the course discussion list.
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