Author: Daniel A. Benitez
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Languages : en
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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.
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Publisher: World Bank Publications
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Category : Monopolios
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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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.
Author: Antonis M. Hadjiantonis
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 364230382X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 251
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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.
Author: Atsushi Iimi
Publisher: World Bank Publications
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Category : Access to Markets
Languages : en
Pages : 43
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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.
Author: Ms.Thornton Matheson
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1484329279
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 42
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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.
Author: Andres Velasco
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 9780815720676
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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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
Author: Tim Coelli
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781781956519
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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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.
Author: Lourdes Trujillo
Publisher: World Bank Publications
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Category : Industrial productivity
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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"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.
Author: Paul Noumba Um
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821356715
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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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.
Author: Antonio Estache
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Category : Acceso a internet
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Unresolved regulatory issues, particularly those relating to interconnection agreements, hamper progress in Internet adoption in Latin America.
