In this paper we investigate how telecommunications infrasture affects economic growth. This issue is important and has recieved considerable attention in the popular press concentrating the creation of the 'information superhighway' and its potential impacts on the economy. We use evidence from...

This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the effect of endogenous deregulation on productivity. We find that treating deregulation across OECD countries as an exogenous event overestimates the competitive impact of deregulation on productivity by as much as 40%