The very concept of 'domestic regulation' in telecommunications comes from multilateral commitments of international …. Under WTO commitments Pakistan has opened up its telecom sector under De-Regulation Policy of 2003 and now the privatization … process of PTCL (the national incumbent operator) is under way. Even after adopting the 'Technology Neutral' Policy, Pakistan …

World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a "cornersolutions- version"of the gravity model to …

and a novel domestic extensive margin. The domestic extensive margin allows identification of globalization and specific … policy effects not properly identified in previous literature. To apply our methods, we build a new dataset covering both the … effects of globalization and European integration. We find strong positive effects of globalization and also significant but …