The telecommunications sector is a powerfully growing market which is expected to play a key role in the EC of the future. This article offers a survey of the liberalization measures envisaged in this formerly heavily protected sector followed by an analysis of their economic effects on both EC...

Today, the telecoms sector is not only one of the fastest growing sectors in the world but also one of the most rapidly changing sectors. In Western Europe different strategies under different regulatory frameworks are being pursued in the effort to meet the challenges posed by this. In Central...

Whereas the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 put an end to airline subsidization in the USA, things look quite different in the European Union: after more than a decade of discussions about liberalization and the advent of the single market, most European routes are still monopolies or duopolies...

Economists, management researchers and sociologists have all examined the impact of the spread of information and communication technologies. There has until now, however, been relatively little interconnectivity and cross-fertilisation of their findings. The following paper attempts to derive a...

Within the Uruguay Round, the "Group of Negotiations on Trade in Services" deals with the formation of a multilateral framework of principles and rules for the "progressive liberalization" of trade in services. Telecommunications is of high priority in the framework preparations, both as a...