This study empirically examines long run relationship between investment in telecommunication and economic growth in selected Asian countries. We resort to econometric tests such as panel unit root tests and panel cointegration test purposed by Pedroni (1997, 1999) for annual data from 1990-2010...

This paper focuses on the potential of information and communication networks for regional development. Particular attention will be given to the role of the telematics sector in the policy for peripheral areas. The critical success factors of this high tech sector will be analyzed by means of...

The expansion of information & communication technology (ICT) is continuing in OECD countries and the world economy – partly due to the ongoing fall of relative ICT prices. The continuing absolute fall of ICT prices and ICT capital prices, respectively, is not adequately considered in the...

A recent phenomenon in competition policy is the acquisition of a private firm by an enterprise that is either wholly owned by government or in the midst of privatization. Such an acquisition poses the question of how public ownership may alter the incentives of a firm to engage in...

In this Paper, we assess the performance and efficiency of OECD countries with respect to broadband Internet subscription. Using the econometric technique of Stochastic Frontier Analysis, we estimate scores indicating the efficiency with which a country converts its economic and demographic...

Media reform can help solve the voters' free-rider problem in democracies and corporations. Uninformed voters cannot hold elected leaders accountable. Letting voters allocate collective funds to competing media organizations would avoid the misaligned incentives that limit political...

We explore the impact of specific corporate news issued by European companies in the ICT industry on the daily stock return. We compile 8.111 news issued in Press releases tab of the firm's website between January 2003-April 2005, and classify them into financial and non financial categories....

This note analyses the competitiveness of different segments of the telecommunications markets in the five countries (United States, United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Chile) shows that those countries that have relied on a proper balance between antitrust and sector-specific regulation...

Among the countries that have fully liberalized their telecommunications sector, some have chosen to rely mainly on sector-specific rules often (but not always) applied by sector-specific institutions, while others have focused mainly on economy-wide antitrust rules and institutions to control...

Media reformers, political campaign finance reformers and corporate governance reformers are all trying to solve the same problem: how to make elected leaders more accountable to voters. Solutions proposed in those different arenas can be hybridized to create a more potent and far-reaching...