We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the … significant impact in the less developed ones. -- telecommunications demand ; universal service ; competition ; developing … countries ; India …

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

corruption. On the one hand, if we assume that the goal of criminals involved in corruption is to minimize the probability of … being detected, then corruption represents a demand for money laundering (trigger effect), while money laundering can serve … as an effective way to clean the revenue from corruption for re-investment (multiplier effect). On the other hand …

to detailed accounts of local budgets and audit data on the associated fiscal corruption. Using the budget variables as … predictors, we train a tree-based gradient-boosted classifier to predict the presence of corruption in held-out test data. The … trained model, when applied to new data, provides a prediction-based measure of corruption that can be used for new empirical …

within the setting of fixed telecommunications markets. From an economist's perspective, the key question that underlies the …