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...

We present case studies of the evolution of regulatory independence in practice for 23 Latin American and Caribbean countries in the telecommunications industry. Based on these studies, we construct two realistic indices of regulatory independence, which improve upon the measures of independence...

In this paper, we apply several alternative methods previously used in the literature to measure the degree of regulatory independence fortelecommunications regulators. These alternative methods are applied to a new homogeneous data set for 23 Latin American countries overa 15-year period. We...