Global markets and government regulation in telecommunications / Kirsten Rodine-Hardy.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Rodine-Hardy, Kirsten.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xxii, 207 p. :; ill.

"In recent years, liberalization, privatization, and deregulation have become commonplace in sectors once dominated by government-owned monopolies. In telecommunications, for example, during the 1990s, more than 129 countries established independent regulatory agencies and more than 100 countries privatized the state-owned telecom operator. Why did so many countries liberalize in such a short period of time? For example, why did both Denmark and Burundi, nations different along so many relevant dimensions, liberalize their telecom sectors around the same time?"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1. Understanding global regulatory reform in telecommunications - a paradigm shift; 2. Why change the rules? explaining liberal telecom reform; 3. When and how do countries change the rules? econometric analysis of the timing of establishing separate regulators and privatizing telecom incumbents; 4. Regulatory reform in the central Europe - freer markets, European rules; 5. Northern European regulatory reform - liberal reform northern-style - 'regulation-lite'; 6. Conclusion: explaining change in a globalized world.