Regulation, Market Structure and Performance in Telecommunications

Olivier Boylaud ; Giuseppe Nicoletti

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

关键词: regulation and industrial policy;    market structure;    firm strategy and market performance;    public enterprises;    regulated industries and administrative law;    telecommunications;    models with panel data;   

DOI  :  https://doi.org/10.1787/601531871521

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: OECD iLibrary

【 摘 要 】

The paper uses an original international database on regulation, market structure and performance in the telecommunications industry to investigate the effects of entry liberalisation and privatisation on productivity, prices and quality of service in long-distance (domestic and international) and mobile cellular telephony services in 23 OECD countries over the 1991-1997 period. The data on regulation and market structure is analysed by means of factor analysis techniques in order to group countries according to their policy and market environments. Controlling for technology developments and differences in economic structure, panel data estimates show that prospective competition (as proxied by the number of years remaining to liberalisation) and effective competition (as proxied by the share of new entrants or by the number of competitors) both bring about productivity and quality improvements and reduce the prices of all the telecommunications services considered in the analysis ...