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No D/630: Telecommunications policies: Measurement and determinants

Jordi Gual () and Francesc Trillas
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Jordi Gual: IESE Business School, Postal: Research Division, Av Pearson 21, 08034 Barcelona, SPAIN
Francesc Trillas: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona

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

JEL-codes: F21; L32; L96

27 pages, May 24, 2006

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