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The role of institutional design in the conduct of infrastructure industries reforms - An illustration through telecommunications in developing countries
Recuero Virto, Laura; Gasmi, Farid; Noumba Um, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
the infrastructure industries reform process in developing countries. Our point of departure is that, when thinking about … Recuero Virto, 2007). The first issue concerns the impact of the quality of institutions on the performance of regulation. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836465
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Qualité institutionnelle et performance économique : cas des télécommunications dans les pays en voie de développement
Recuero Virto, Laura; Gasmi, Farid; Belaid, Rabah - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
countries for the case of telecommunications, the sector among the infrastructure industries that has experienced worldwide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836710
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The Role of Institutional Design in the Conduct of Infrastructure Industry Reforms - An Illustration through Telecommunications in Developing Countries
Recuero Virto, Laura; Gasmi, Farid; Noumba Um, Paul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper is concerned with the role of political and economic institutions in the conduct of the infrastructure … concerns the impact of the quality of institutions on the function of regulation. Our review points to the fact that political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805047
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e-Communications: Investment and the Regulatory Framework
Jones, Siôn; Jones, Pau - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
provides a description of the process of collecting data on investment in physical infrastructure in the e …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789277
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Infrastructure regulation: what works, why, and how do we know?
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
, new insight into consumer behaviour can be gained for use in the design of future regulation of infrastructure services in …Public infrastructure services have been subject to dramatic regulatory reform since the 1980s in the European Union …. Despite this ambitious reform programme, there are signs that regulation is not always working. The Commission itself has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283788
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From national monopoly to Multinational Corporation: how regulation shaped the road towards telecommunications internationalization
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Comín Comín, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
One of the consequences of major regulatory reform of the telecommunications sector from the end of the 1970s – particularly, privatization, liberalization and deregulation – was the establishment of a new business environment which permitted former national telecommunications monopolies to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283796
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Bringing Citizens Back In: Renewing Public Service Regulation
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
across populations, and that specifically targeted “bottom-up” regulation from the demand-side could usefully address these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283800
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Mobile telephony in the UK
Armstrong, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
This paper discusses aspects of recent policy towards mobile telephony in the U.K., including (i) the level of retail charges for calls from fixed to mobile networks, (ii) the level of call termination charges on mobile networks, and (iii) the level of connection subsidies offered by mobile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644936
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Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)
Harbord, David; Hoernig, Steffen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; networkbased price discrimination; and call externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529327
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Is the U.S. Dancing to a Different Drummer?
Marcus, J. Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Is the United States in full retreat from internationally recognized regulatory best practice? Or is it instead headed toward some different destination – "dancing to the beat of a different drummer"? Where is this likely to lead?
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616666