The security industry can be defined, in the first instance, as the industry that produces the goods and services required to protect citizens from insecurity. Yet, this industry, as opposed to defence, has not been an area of intense research. Their boundaries are unclear and the industry is...

This paper analyses the industry that produces the goods and services required to protect citizens from insecurity. It presents a definition of this economic sector useful in setting its boundaries, and it briefly describes the main types of industries operating within the sector. The paper...

Contra the current trend of deregulation, mobile wireless markets in the OECD member states appear, until recently, to have been more or less concentrated. The study estimates the equations for market concentration, mobile prices, and profits using annual panel data from 24 OECD member states...