. Political support for liberalization may therefore be limited …

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 …

This paper examines the optimal privatization policy in vertically related markets in which an upstream public firm … and the resulting profit margin is positive. However, complete privatization is never optimal. Numerical simulations … reveal both the diverse optimal privatization regimes and the patterns of optimal privatization levels with varying numbers …

In many countries, infrastructure liberalization progressed faster than the privatization of former state monopolies … telecommunications sector. It examines, firstly, whether the dual role of the state as owner and regulator distorts competition. Secondly …

regulatory imperatives in the Chinese telecommunications industry, currently there is no consistent pattern offered in the … China's SOE system in the telecommunications sector; and (3) original first attempt in identifying different roles of …'s formal and informal institutional environment in general and for telecommunications in particular. Measurements developed in …

After earlier waves of privatization, local governments have increasingly taken back control of local service … provisions in some sectors and countries and, instead, started providing those services themselves (reverse privatization). Using … the years 2003, 2009, and 2015, we investigate motives for reverse privatization. Our results show that, in deciding …