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Telecommunications reform and efficiency performance: do good institutions matter?

Until recently, most studies investigating the telecommunication reforms performance fail to incorporate the importance of institutions into the empirical analysis. This study highlights the importance of institutional governance on telecommunications efficiency and provides empirical results for the impact of institutions on reform outcomes. It provides significant evidence that the institutional environment in which reform progress takes place is an important determinant for successful reform. This study uses stochastic distance function approach to capture the role of institutions in explaining the efficiency differences across 70 countries. The empirical analysis reveals that policy stability in the form of substantive checks and balances on executive power is the most important aspect for successful reform. Independently, legal integrity improves telecommunications efficiency through privatization, while greater freedom from corruption influences the effectiveness of a regulatory body.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ADTP/285826
Date January 2010
CreatorsMohamad, Noorihsan
Source SetsAustraliasian Digital Theses Program
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
RightsRestricted Access: Abstract and Citation Only

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