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What Drives Investment in Telecommunications Markets? Evidence from OECD Countries

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  • Heimeshoff Ulrich

    (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Universitätsstr. 1, 40225 Düsseldorf)

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Recent studies provide clear evidence that the quality of telecommunications infrastructure has strong impacts on economic growth. Especially in Germany there is a controversial debate how to stimulate telecommunications investment to foster the introduction of Next Generation Networks. To find appropriate policies to enhance infrastructure investment one has to get a thorough understanding of the determinants of infrastructure investment. Using a panel consisting of 30 OECD countries for the period 1990 to 2011 and taking account of possible non-stationarities in aggregate data, we investigate the main drivers of telecommunications investment on an aggregate level applying dynamic panel data methods. Our main finding is an inverted U-shaped relationship between per capita telecommunications investment and competition.

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  • Heimeshoff Ulrich, 2013. "What Drives Investment in Telecommunications Markets? Evidence from OECD Countries," Review of Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 64(1), pages 7-28, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:lus:reveco:v:64:y:2013:i:1:p:7-28
    DOI: 10.1515/roe-2013-0102
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