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Telecommunications Policies: Measurement and Determinants

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  • Gual Jordi

    (IESE Business School (University of Navarra) and “la Caixa”)

  • Trillas Francesc

    (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Abstract

This paper presents new data on telecommunications reform for a cross section of countries. We measure telecommunications reform along two dimensions: entry barriers and regulatory independence. This data set is combined with a comprehensive set of performance, institutional and political data to analyze the determinants of telecommunications policies. We find that entry barriers are positively associated with the degree to which countries have an interventionist legal tradition, but they are unrelated to the partisan ideology of reforming governments. We also find that countries with weak protection of investors' quasi-rents by other means, and countries with a larger incumbent, are more prone to create independent regulatory agencies, although the latter is a weaker result.

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  • Gual Jordi & Trillas Francesc, 2006. "Telecommunications Policies: Measurement and Determinants," Review of Network Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 5(2), pages 1-24, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:rneart:v:5:y:2006:i:2:n:4
    DOI: 10.2202/1446-9022.1097
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    JEL classification:

    • F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
    • L32 - Industrial Organization - - Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise - - - Public Enterprises; Public-Private Enterprises
    • L96 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Telecommunications

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