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 …

.S.-originated International Message Telecommunications Service (IMTS) traffic. (See Lawrence J. Spiwak, From International Competitive Carrier to … the WTO: A Survey of the FCC's International Telecommunications Policy Initiatives 1985-1998, 51 Fed. Comm. L.J. 111 (1998 … parties representing over 100 foreign governments, regulators, and telecommunications companies - upheld the FCC's Benchmarks …

implementation of the USRR: the Competition-Induced-Incentive Effect and the Most-Favored-Nation Effect. I then empirically evaluate …

Using a new data set of the telecommunications sector on privatization (1981-98 for 167 countries) and competition … liberalization in the telecommunications sector. Building on the framework of a generalized private interest theory, we derive … telecommunications sector. We pay particular attention to how the effects of interest groups on policies vary from more democratic to …

We develop models of bilateral oligopoly with two-way traffic exchanges to study the impact of competition and … prices for fixed settlement rates. Both competition and the PRR tend to increase net settlement payments. The overall market …