The paper focuses on the relation of competition to changes in productivity. Specifically, it compares the experience … which competition produces differential changes in efficiency. The results support, by implication, a policy of permitting … entry and competition in local telephone markets …

In this article we study the impact of taxation in the telecommunications sector. In order to do so, we develop a model … considering the taxes and fees imposed directly or indirectly along the telecommunications value chain. Overall, we find evidence …

full liberalization of telecommunications markets provides scope for relying to a large extent on general antitrust rules … Zealand which fully liberalized its telecommunications markets in the late 1980's and relied primarily on antitrust …

This article challenges the conventional wisdom that the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is to blame for the lack of … competition in local telephony, and that somehow the federal courts are complicit in this failure. It begins by highlighting the … continued importance of local wireline infrastructure and how little competition exists. Moving to the 1996 Act's network …

opportunity costs. This paper provides empirical evidence in support of the importance of telecommunications sector reform to … put forward in this study establishes that privatization of incumbent telecommunications operators supports the … introduction of competition and improved quality of regulations, which together condition the speed of technology migration, the …

Our paper seeks to define the term effective competition as used in Mexico’s telecommunications sector and implemented … with substantial market power in telecommunications markets as well as to consider the relationship between the static and … dynamic components of efficiency and effective competition. We use the European experience as a benchmark for the …

the provision of local access in the long term and assessing the implications this may have for competition in …

analysis. These findings show that European Commission interventions are competition enhancing and support the expected … performance of the affected companies in the telecommunications sector. However, while country-addressing interventions and …