Using a new data set of the telecommunications sector on privatization (1981-98 for 167 countries) and competition … liberalization in the telecommunications sector. Building on the framework of a generalized private interest theory, we derive … telecommunications sector. We pay particular attention to how the effects of interest groups on policies vary from more democratic to …

assesses whether the general principles need to be adapted when dealing with the telecommunications services industry. The …

practitioners and economists, taking the existing regulatory environment as fixed. Based on the degree of existing regulation (full … telecommunications. …

This paper questions whether competition can replace sector-specific regulation of mobile telecommunications. We show …

This Paper examines a general problem exemplified by post-auction (third generation ‘3G’) mobile telecommunications …

technology (cable) which is not subject to regulation, and what we discover is that inter-platform competition has a positive …

regulation if the follower’s private incentives are dominated by business-stealing. Here access holidays can improve welfare by …

existing access regulation is based on a single essential network. We show that continued asymmetric access regulation of one … network does not control sufficiently for market power and benefits the unregulated network, and that symmetric regulation … would lead to higher consumer surplus. Furthermore, the whole setup of access regulation may not be viable in the long run …