We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly …

areas. In particular, the U.S. telecommunications sector was hit by a deep crisis and electricity reforms suffered under the … California disaster. Part of the explanation for these difficulties stems from past successful liberalization and deregulation … experiences in other areas suggesting that competition could provide large benefits to hitherto regulated utilities in local …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …

, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform. …

Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national co … profi t s. Instead of such an equilibrium, a deregulation race is likely to emerge in which all but the last country repeal … their antitrust laws. The deregulation race results in a chain of Stackelberg leadership positions taken over by national …