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

significant impact in the less developed ones. -- telecommunications demand ; universal service ; competition ; developing …We analyze the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian telecommunications market, in order to assess the … competition on investment: competition seemingly helps stimulating investment in the most developed areas, but has probably no …

mobile telecommunications. Using a uniquely constructed panel of mobile operators’ prices and accounting information across … findings are not only relevant for the current consolidation wave in the telecommunications industry. More generally, they … stress that competition and regulatory authorities should take seriously the potential trade-off between market power effects …

explain them. We then describe a theoretical framework of endogenous markups, innovation, and competition that can potentially …

that are more effective at preventing outsider's entry and at mitigating price competition lead to less patenting. We test … restrict entry and price competition. We show that guilds which originated from medieval religious confraternities were more … likely to regulate entry and competition, and that the effect on patenting is robust to instrumenting guild statutes with …

telecommunications operator France Telecom was simultaneously subjected to the deregulation of the telecom market in the world and to a …