One of the first international cases of telecommunication regulation that sought that incumbent firms shared their economies of scope and their network economies with their competitors was the one that took place in the United States, through the so-called "Telecomm Act" (1996) and its...

This paper evaluates the main measures that have been used to regulate the interconnection prices in the telecommunication sector. We show that many of the regulations that are applying the vast majority of countries have very little theoretical support, and we identify the restrictions that...

Resumen La regulación es una de las formas que tiene el Estado para intervenir en la Economía. Pero a menudo en la literatura no es claro el alcance de esta función, pues en muchos casos se restringe solo al análisis de las acciones del Estado para promover la competencia y, en otros, hace...

En el presente trabajo se hace un análisis descriptivo de los mecanismos de regulación económica del servicio de telefonía pública básica conmutada local en Colombia entre los años 1999 a 2008, y se estudian sus desarrollos, se describe su funcionamiento, sus características económicas...

One of the first international cases of telecommunication regulation that sought that incumbent firms shared their economies of scope and their network economies with their competitors was the one that took place in the United States, through the so-called "Telecomm Act" (1996) and its...

We show that project evaluation should be based on free cash flows at nominal prices. We present a case where the results from the constant price method are biased upwards and there is a risk to accept bad projects. It is a widespread practice to evaluate projects at constant prices. With an...

There's an existing trend on the current public service dynamics that thinks the State as entity. Such entity is limited to establishing prices and qualities of the services it regulates, based on costs and information offered by agents: thus, full-filling a function essentially technical. The...

Spanish Abstract: La presente investigación es de aspecto fiscal, se ubica en las deducciones autorizadas y tiene por objeto demostrar con métodos científicos la deducibilidad del gasto de seguro del hombre clave, por ser la persona estrictamente indispensable para la consecución de los...

The paper criticizes the conception of value on behalf of the conventional economic theory, blaming it for the current economic school’s incapacity to explain the actual economic crisis and to offer an adequate perspective to settle a solution. It proposes an explanation based on the tendency...

The present study is, in particular, an attempt to test the relationship between tax level and political stability by using some economic control variables and to see the relationship among government effectiveness, corruption, and GDP. For the purpose, we used the Vector Autoregression (VAR)...