Coupled with the early wave of privatization in the 80s of state-owned telecom enterprises, the reform trend in the … the introduction of competition into basic telecommunications. Building on the empirical model of Greene (1998), this … government's capital constraints are positively associated with the privatization. This study provides the concerned governments …

Using a new data set of the telecommunications sector on privatization (1981-98 for 167 countries) and competition … policies (1990-98 for roughly 50 countries), this Paper investigates the political economy determinants of privatization and … liberalization in the telecommunications sector. Building on the framework of a generalized private interest theory, we derive …

put forward in this study establishes that privatization of incumbent telecommunications operators supports the … opportunity costs. This paper provides empirical evidence in support of the importance of telecommunications sector reform to … amount of telecommunications capital spending and broadband penetration. In turn, all these three factors maximize economic …