This document consists of 26 miscellaneous conference papers that consider various aspects of telecommunications policy, as follows: (1) "New Communications Systems and Services" (Baer); (2) "Regulatory Incentive Mechanisms and Political Action" (Baron); (3) "Efficiency Issues in Competitive Allocation of the Broadcast Spectrum" (Borenstein); (4) "Divestiture Policy Considerations in an Information Services World" (Brennan); (5) "The Effects of Household Characteristics on Telephone Usage and Class of Service Choice" (Cox); (6) "Modeling the Effects of Household Characteristics on Telephone Usage and Class of Service Choice" (Cox and Ruud); (7) "Regulation Games" (Gilbert and Newbery); (8) "Exploring the Hidden Costs of Overbuilds" (Glist); (9) "The Economics of the 'New' Hollywood" (Gomery); (10) "Privatization of NTT in Liberalized Japanese Telecommunications Market" (Hayashi and Toda); (11) "Repeated Auctions of Incentive Contracts, Investment, and Bidding Parity with an Application to Takeovers" (Laffont and Tirole); (12) "The Economics and Pricing of Broadband" (Levin); (13) "Ratings Policy and Public Policy" (Miller); (14) "Open Interconnection and the Economics of Networks" (Mueller); (15) "The Political Economics of State Responses to Divestiture and Federal Deregulation in Telecommunications" (Noll and Smart); (16) "The Uniform Settlements Policy in International Telecommunications" (O'Brien); (17) "The Conflict Between Spectrum Efficiency and Economic Efficiency" (Rogers and Woodbury); (18) "Trigger Price Regulation" (Salant and Woroch); (19)"Behind the Scenes Power in Japan's Information Industry" (Salvaggio); (20) "Alternatives to Rate of Return Regulation in the Telecommunications Industry" (Sievers); (21) "State Regulators, Legislators, and U S West" (Teske); (22) "Frequency Spectrum Deregulation, Property Rights and Markets" (Webbink); (23) "ATV Standards and Trade in Recorded Video Entertainment" (Wildman); (24) "Estimation of a Market Growth Model with Network Externalities and Dynamic Pricing Using an Extended Kalman Filter" (Xie and Sirbu); (25) "Reneging by Cable Operators on Their Franchise Promises" (Zupan); and (26) "Cable Franchise Renewals" (Zupan). The texts are supplemented by various tables and figures; most of the papers also contain references. (EW)