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telecommunications industry to investigate the effects of entry liberalisation and privatisation on productivity, prices and quality of … remaining to liberalisation) and effective competition (as proxied by the share of new entrants or by the number of competitors …
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telecommunications industry to investigate the effects of entry liberalisation and privatisation on productivity, prices and quality of … remaining to liberalisation) and effective competition (as proxied by the share of new entrants or by the number of competitors … the industry (as proxied by both the public share in the PTO and years remaining to privatisation) …
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This study was prepared by Nadine Fabritz while she was working at the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in the Department for Human Capital and Innovation. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in October...
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The comprehensive theoretical literature on mobile termination rates (MTRs) is inconclusive on how the level of MTRs affects overall consumer charges and firms' profit. In a theoretical model, well suited for econometric implementation, we show that where consumers buy a bundle with included...
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We empirically estimate the effects of regulated access prices and firms' multinational status on firm performance by using firm, corporate group, and country level information for the European broadband market between 2002 and 2010. Three measures of firm performance are used, namely: market...
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We question previous research assuming that privatizing firm performance generally benefits from decreasing state ownership and the passage of time, both of which purportedly align principal-agent incentives promoting organizational decision-making that increases shareholder value. When state...
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We test competing theoretical perspectives explaining likely shareholder returns from material investment decisions announced by privatizing telecommunications firms ("telecoms") with varying levels of residual state ownership. A "principal-agent" perspective suggests that decrease in residual...
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case of a protectionist FDI policy in Indonesia that restricts FDI at the product level. Using a yearly census of …
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case of a protectionist FDI policy in Indonesia that restricts FDI at the product level. Using a yearly census of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011222
This paper describes the privatization program carried out in the productive sector of the Colombian economy during the 1990s. It evaluates privatization within the policy context of general market deregulation and the promotion of private investment in the provision of public infrastructure and...
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