Telecommunications Performance, Reforms, and Governance

Telecommunications Performance, Reforms, and Governance

The authors assess the effects of private capital and independent regulatory agencies on telecommunications performance by using cross-country panel data from 1990 to 2003. In general, they find that having independent regulatory agencies positively affects affordability and labor productivity, but...

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Main Authors: Estache, Antonio, Goicoechea, Ana, Manacorda, Marco
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
AVERAGE PERFORMANCE
CAPITAL EXPENDITURES
CAPITAL INVESTMENT
CENTRAL AMERICA
CONSUMERS
DECISION-MAKING
ECONOMETRIC ANALYSIS
ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
EXPROPRIATION
FIXED COSTS
GDP
GDP PER CAPITA
INCOME LEVELS
INDEPENDENT REGULATOR
INDEPENDENT REGULATORS
INDEPENDENT REGULATORY
INDEPENDENT REGULATORY AGENCIES
INFRASTRUCTURE REFORM
INVESTMENT RISK
INVESTMENT RISKS
LATIN AMERICAN
LOCAL TELEPHONE
MONOPOLY
PAYPHONES
POSITIVE EFFECTS
PRIVATE CAPITAL
PRIVATE INVESTORS
PRIVATE OPERATORS
PRIVATE OWNERSHIP
PRIVATE SECTOR
PRIVATE SECTOR PARTICIPATION
PRIVATIZATION
PRODUCTIVITY
PURCHASING POWER
REGULATORS
REGULATORY AGENCY
REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT
REGULATORY PROCEDURES
REGULATORY REFORM
REGULATORY SYSTEMS
SANITATION
SERVICE DELIVERY
STATEMENT
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
SUBSCRIPTION
TELECOM SERVICES
TELECOMMUNICATION
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TELECOMMUNICATIONS OPERATORS
TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM
TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION
TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR
TELECOMS
TELEPHONE COMPANIES
TELEPHONE SERVICES
TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY
UNBUNDLING
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/01/6549404/telecommunications-performance-reforms-governance
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8824
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Summary:The authors assess the effects of private capital and independent regulatory agencies on telecommunications performance by using cross-country panel data from 1990 to 2003. In general, they find that having independent regulatory agencies positively affects affordability and labor productivity, but negatively affects quality. Having private capital positively affects access, quality, and labor productivity, but negatively affects affordability. However, reform policies affect industrial and developing countries differently in some cases. The authors also find that governance plays an important role as it affects performance and interacts with reform policies.

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