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Investment in broadband infrastructure under local deregulation : evidence from the UK broadband market

Fabritz, Nadine; Falck, Oliver - 2013

This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of … exploit regional differences in deregulation following a 2008 reform. Controlling for initial conditions, first …-difference estimates show that local deregulation increases local investment in infrastructure by both the incumbent and competitors. …

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Telecommunication submarine-cable deployment and the digital divide in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cariolle, Joël - 2018

The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951676

Network utilities in the U.S. : sector reforms without privatization

Vogelsang, Ingo - 2004

California disaster. Part of the explanation for these difficulties stems from past successful liberalization and deregulation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402612

Economic and political liberalizations

Giavazzi, Francesco; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2004

This paper studies empirically the effects of and the interactions amongst economic and political liberalizations. Economic liberalizations are measured by a widely used indicator that captures the scope of the market in the economy, and in particular of policies towards freer international...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450308

Regulation, financial crises, and liberalization traps

Marchionne, Francesco; Pisicoli, Beniamino; Fratianni, … - 2019

To reconcile the mixed empirical results, we develop a theoretical model whose main implication is a concave impact of regulation on the probability of a crisis. We test this relationship by applying a Probit model of a non-linear specification to annual data from 1999 to 2011 drawn from 132...

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Did globalization influence credit market deregulation?

Eppinger, Peter S.; Potrafke, Niklas - 2015

We investigate whether globalization influenced credit market deregulation over the period 1970-2010. Globalization is … measured by the KOF indices of globalization. Credit market deregulation is measured by the credit market freedom indicators of … positive correlation between globalization and credit market deregulation. We account for reverse causality by using predicted …

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Financial reform and banking crises

Shehzad, Choudhry Tanveer - 2009

We examine the impact of various dimensions of financial reform on the likelihood of systemic and non-systemic banking crises. Using new financial reform measures for a large sample of developing and developed countries for the period 1973 to 2002, our multivariate probit modeling results...

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Democracy and development : the devil in the details

Persson, Torsten (contributor); … - 2006

Does democracy promote economic development? This paper reviews recent attempts to address this question that exploited within-country variation. It shows that the answer is largely positive, but also depends on the details of democratic reforms. First, the sequence of economic vs political...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301122

The impact of liberalisation and globalisation on income inequality in developing and transitional economies

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - 2003

the policy drive towards domestic deregulation and external liberalisation. The paper concludes by analysing the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514131

Changing electricity markets : quantifying the price effects of greening the energy matrix

Kohlscheen, Emanuel; Moessner, Richhild - 2022 - Original Version: June 2022, this version: July 2022

We analyse the drivers of European Power Exchange (EPEX) retail electricity prices between 2012 and early 2022 using machine learning. The agnostic random forest approach that we use is able to reduce in-sample root mean square errors (RMSEs) by around 50% when compared to a standard linear...

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