Telecommunications Policies: Measurement and Determinants

27 Pages Posted: 12 Jul 2006 Last revised: 7 Sep 2008

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Jordi Gual

University of Navarra - IESE Business School; VidaCaixa; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Francesc Trillas

Autonomous University of Barcelona - Department of Economics; University of Navarra - IESE Business School

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Abstract

This paper presents new data on telecommunications reform for a cross section of countries. We measure telecommunications reform along two dimensions: entry barriers and regulatory independence. This data set is combined with a comprehensive set of performance, institutional and political data to analyze the determinants of telecommunications policies. We find that entry barriers are positively associated with the degree to which countries have an interventionist legal tradition, but they are unrelated to the partisan ideology of reforming governments. We also find that countries with weak protection of investors' quasi-rents by other means, and countries with a larger incumbent are more prone to create independent regulatory agencies, although this last result is statistically weaker.

Keywords: Telecommunications Policies, Liberalization, Regulation, Entry

JEL Classification: L96, L32, F21

Suggested Citation

Gual, Jordi and Trillas Jané, Francesc, Telecommunications Policies: Measurement and Determinants. IESE Business School Working Paper No. 630, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=913333 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.913333

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