Regulations, Institutions, and Commitment - Comparative Studies of Telecommunications

Zusammenfassung The book assesses the impact of political and social institutions on regulatory structures in the telecommunications industry in five countries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Douglass North; Series editor's preface; Preface; List of contributors; 1. A framework for resolving the regulatory problem Brian Levy and Pablo T. Spiller; 2. Telecommunications regulation in Jamaica Pablo T. Spiller and Cezley I. Sampson; 3. The United Kingdom: a pacesetter in regulatory incentives Pablo T. Spiller and Ingo Vogelsang; 4. Chile: regulatory specificity, credibility of commitment, and distributional demands Ahmed Galal; 5. The political economy of the telecommunications sector in the Philippines Hadi Salehi Esfahani; 6. Argentina: the sequencing of privatization and regulation Alice Hill and Manuel Angel Abdala; Notes; References; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Brian (The World Bank) Spiller Levy, Brian Spiller Levy
• Assisted by: Randall Calvert (Editor), Brian Levy (Editor), Pablo T. Spiller (Editor), Spiller Pablo T. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.1996
• EAN: 9780521550130
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55013-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Mod; Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Electronics, electrical engineering, communications engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Media & Communications, Political Economy, Media, Information & Communication Industries