This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country …. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and … government. We estimate the dynamics of press freedom around both failed and successful coups and find that although press …

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. …

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

percentage points increase in internet penetration rates. This is a huge increase, meaning that the deployment of these cables … has almost doubled the penetration of Internet in the sub-continent's population. On the other hand, exogenous sources of … internet and mobile penetration rates, to lower investments in ICTs, and to increase mobile-cellular tariffs and the wireline …

the mobile internet for EU residents when traveling abroad in the European Economic Area. Estimates from individual … deadweight loss, i.e., new users accessing the mobile internet. We further show that the impact of the regulation varies with …

-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … freedom, whereas countries without effective monitoring suffer from decentralization. Our policy implication is that a free … press is a necessary pre-condition for successful decentralization programs. -- decentralization ; corruption ; freedom of …

This paper empirically analyzes the joint impact of democracy and press freedom on corruption. Based in the theoretical … is a certain degree of press freedom in a country, vice versa. Our policy implication is that democratic reforms are more … ; corruption ; press freedom ; interaction effects …