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The Potential Role Of Economic Cost Models In The Regulation Of Telecommunications In Developing Countries
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Book Synopsis The Potential Role of Economic Cost Models in the Regulation of Telecommunications in Developing Countries by : Daniel A. Benitez
Download or read book The Potential Role of Economic Cost Models in the Regulation of Telecommunications in Developing Countries written by Daniel A. Benitez and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the efficient cost of providing telecommunications services to a certain area or type of customer? As developing countries build up their capacity to regulate infrastructure monopolies, cost models are likely to prove increasingly important in answering this question, but without information no real answer can be given. In this paper, we will introduce cost models and establish their applicability when different degrees of information are available to the regulator. Reliable and detailed information is generally a scarce good in developing countries, and we establish here the minimum information requirements that a regulator needs to implement a cost proxy model approach, showing that this 'data constraint' need not be that binding.
Book Synopsis Are Cost Models Useful for Telecoms Regulators in Developing Countries? by :
Download or read book Are Cost Models Useful for Telecoms Regulators in Developing Countries? written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As developing countries build up their capacity to regulate privatized infrastructure monopolies, cost models are likely to prove increasingly important in determining the efficient cost of providing a service to a certain area or type of customer. But cost models require reliable information, which is often scarce in developing countries. Census data and the location of wire services together may help provide the minimum information a regulator needs to implement a cost proxy model, a promising regulatory tool for assessing the efficient cost of providing a utility service.
Book Synopsis Telecommunication Economics by : Antonis M. Hadjiantonis
Download or read book Telecommunication Economics written by Antonis M. Hadjiantonis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes a collaborative and selected documentation of the scientific outcome of the European COST Action IS0605 Econ@Tel "A Telecommunications Economics COST Network" which run from October 2007 to October 2011. Involving experts from around 20 European countries, the goal of Econ@Tel was to develop a strategic research and training network among key people and organizations in order to enhance Europe's competence in the field of telecommunications economics. Reflecting the organization of the COST Action IS0605 Econ@Tel in working groups the following four major research areas are addressed: - evolution and regulation of communication ecosystems; - social and policy implications of communication technologies; - economics and governance of future networks; - future networks management architectures and mechanisms.
Book Synopsis Price Structure and Network Externalities in the Telecommunications Industry by : Atsushi Iimi
Download or read book Price Structure and Network Externalities in the Telecommunications Industry written by Atsushi Iimi and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many developing countries have experienced significant developments in their telecommunications network. Countries in Africa are no exception to this. The paper examines what factor facilitates most network expansion using micro data from 45 fixed-line and mobile telephone operators in 18 African countries. In theory the telecommunications sector has two sector-specific characteristics: network externalities and discriminatory pricing. It finds that many telephone operators in the region use peak and off-peak prices and termination-based price discrimination, but are less likely to rely on strategic fee schedules such as tie-in arrangements. The estimated demand function based on a discreet consumer choice model indicates that termination-based discriminatory pricing can facilitate network expansion. It also shows that the implied price-cost margins are significantly high. Thus, price liberalization could be conducive to development of the telecommunications network led by the private sector. Some countries in Africa are still imposing certain price restrictions. But more important, it remains a policy issue how the authorities should ensure reciprocal access between operators at reasonable cost.
Download or read book Spring 2002 written by Andres Velasco and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This semiannual journal from the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA) provides a forum for influential economists and policymakers from the region to share high-quality research directly applied to policy issues within and among those countries.Contents include:Globalization Hazard and Delayed Reform in Emerging MarketsGuillermo Calvo (Inter-American Development Bank)The Politics of Legal ReformFlorencio Lopez de Silanes (Yale University and NBER)Inflation Targeting in Chile, Brazil, and Mexico: Performance, Credibility, and the Exchange RateAlejandro Werner (Banco de Mexico) and Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel (Banco Central de Chile)Telecommunications Reform, Access Regulation, and Internet Adoption in Latin America Antonio Estache (World Bank and Ecares), Marco Manacorda (London School of Economics and CEP), and Tommaso M. Valletti (Imperial College Management School and CPR)Equity and Educational Performance: Evidence from Bolivia and ChileComments by Miguel Urquiola and Omar AriasEvaluating the Impact of School Decentralization on Education QualityComments by Eric A. Hanushek and Mariano Tommasi
Book Synopsis Taxing Telecommunications in Developing Countries by : Ms.Thornton Matheson
Download or read book Taxing Telecommunications in Developing Countries written by Ms.Thornton Matheson and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing countries apply numerous sector-specific taxes to telecommunications, whose buoyant revenues and formal enterprises provide a convenient “tax handle”. This paper explores whether there is an economic rationale for sector-specific taxes on telecommunications and, if so, what form they should take to balance the competing goals of promoting connectivity and mobilizing revenues. A survey of the literature finds that limited telecoms competition likely creates rents that could efficiently be taxed. We propose a “pecking order” of sector-specific taxes that could be levied in addition to standard income and value-added taxes, based on capturing rents and minimizing distortions. Taxes that target possible economic rents or profits are preferable, but their administrative challenges may necessitate reliance on service excises at the cost of higher consumer prices and lower connectivity. Taxes on capital inputs and consumer access, which distort production and restrict network access, should be avoided; so should tax incentives, which are not needed to attract foreign capital to tap a local market.
Book Synopsis Performance Measurement and Regulation of Network Utilities by : Tim Coelli
Download or read book Performance Measurement and Regulation of Network Utilities written by Tim Coelli and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the important role that economic performance measurement is playing in the regulation of network utilities in many countries today. The contributors to the book - researchers from academia, regulatory agencies and consulting firms - address the use of efficiency measures in price regulation and in assessing the effects of past regulatory reforms. Industries examined include electricity supply, water supply, telecommunications and airlines, across a range of countries including the USA, UK, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia and New Zealand.
Book Synopsis Infrastructure Performance and Reform in Developing and Transition Economies by : Lourdes Trujillo
Download or read book Infrastructure Performance and Reform in Developing and Transition Economies written by Lourdes Trujillo and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Estache, Perelman, and Trujillo review about 80 studies on electricity and gas, water and sanitation, and rail and ports (with a footnote on telecommunications) in developing countries. The main policy lesson is that there is a difference in the relevance of ownership for efficiency between utilities and transport in developing countries. In transport, private operators have tended to perform better than public operators. For utilities, ownership often does not matter as much as sometimes argued. Most cross-country studies find no statistically significant difference in efficiency scores between public and private providers. As for the country-specific studies, some do find differences in performance over time but these differences tend to matter much less than a large number of other variables. Across sectors, private operators functioning in a competitive environment or regulated under price caps or hybrid regulatory regimes tend to catch up best practice faster than public operators. There is a very strong case to push regulators in developing and transition economies toward a more systematic reliance on yardstick competition in a sector in which residual monopoly powers tend to be common. This paper--a product of the Office of the Vice President, Infrastructure Network--is part of a larger effort in the network to document the state of the sector"--World Bank web site.
Book Synopsis A Model for Calculating Interconnection Costs in Telecommunications by : Paul Noumba Um
Download or read book A Model for Calculating Interconnection Costs in Telecommunications written by Paul Noumba Um and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The proposed cost model takes into account most features characterizing the development stage of telecommunications networks in Sub-Saharan Africa (small size of fixed network, importance of rural telephony, excessive reliance on microwave technology, explosive demand for mobile service, and weak regulatory capacity)."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Telecommunications and Information Services for the Poor by : Juan Navas-Sabater
Download or read book Telecommunications and Information Services for the Poor written by Juan Navas-Sabater and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Access to information and communication technologies is a crucial issue for sustainable economic development. This discussion paper outlines a number of policy and regulatory measures that can be used to close the digital divide. The six sections of the report are: telecommunications, information and poverty reduction; an overview of access problems; technology and market solutions to close the access gap; policy and regulatory models for improving access; World Bank experience to date; towards a strategy for universal access.
Book Synopsis Telecommunication Reforms, Access Regulation, and Internet Adoption in Latin America by : Antonio Estache
Download or read book Telecommunication Reforms, Access Regulation, and Internet Adoption in Latin America written by Antonio Estache and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unresolved regulatory issues, particularly those relating to interconnection agreements, hamper progress in Internet adoption in Latin America.
Download or read book Wireless written by Brian J.W. Regli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The revolution of wireless communications has only just begun to transform the telecommunications industry worldwide. This book offers insight into the possible options for corporate strategists and government policymakers as they look to harness the expansion of wireless communications to meet the goals of sustainable telecommunications development. Using a multidisciplinary approach which combines policy research, legal analysis, business economics, and models of sustainability from the environmental sciences, the book compares the development of wireless communications in four countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, and Brazil. The comparative analysis points to common themes and opportunities, including: * breaking down the barriers between wireless and wireline access by changing the regulatory design which constrains service providers; * targeting the development potential of wireless access through the utilization of new technologies and service models; and * using wireless access as the basis for full facilities-based competition in both developing and developed world markets. No other book today offers this broad a context for a discussion of wireless communications and its potential impact on the evolution of the telecommunications industry.
Book Synopsis INFORMATION ECONOMICS AND POLICY by : D.M. Lamberton, D. Allen, M. Cave
Download or read book INFORMATION ECONOMICS AND POLICY written by D.M. Lamberton, D. Allen, M. Cave and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Granting and Renegotiating Infrastructure Concessions by : J. Luis Guasch
Download or read book Granting and Renegotiating Infrastructure Concessions written by J. Luis Guasch and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1990s, infrastructure concessions were hailed as the solution to Latin America's endemic infrastructure deficit, by combining private sector efficiency with rent dissipation brought about by competition. This publication examines the design and implementation of over 1,000 examples of concession contracts, in order to identify the problems that have occurred in the process. It goes on to highlight lessons to be learned for the future, in order to realise the potential benefits of infrastructure reform and to contribute to economic growth and poverty reduction.
Download or read book Economía written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Controlling Market Power in Telecommunications by : Damien Geradin
Download or read book Controlling Market Power in Telecommunications written by Damien Geradin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controlling market power is a crucial issue in liberalised telecommunications markets. By comparatively analysing five countries, this book explores how the regulatory framework should be designed.
Book Synopsis Competition in Telecommunications by : Jean-Jacques Laffont
Download or read book Competition in Telecommunications written by Jean-Jacques Laffont and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors analyze regulatory reform and the emergence of competitionin network industries using the state-of-the-art theoretical tools ofindustrial organization, political economy, and the economics ofincentives.
