1. Empirical Studies on Local Competition, Regulation and Broadband Diffusion in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry Open Access Author: Tang, Mingzhe Title: Empirical Studies on Local Competition, Regulation and Broadband Diffusion in the U.S. Telecommunications Industry Graduate Program: Economics Keywords: dynamic programminglocal competitionbroadband diffusionnested pseudo-loglikelihood estimation File: Download Mingzhe-Dissertation.pdf Committee Members: Mark John Roberts, Committee Chair/Co-ChairN Edward Coulson, Committee MemberCoenraad Arnout P Pinkse, Committee MemberKrishna Prasad Jayakar, Committee Member