Telecommunications reform and efficiency performance: do good institutions matter?

Until recently, most studies investigating telecommunication reforms performance have failed 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...

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Main Author:	Mohamad, Noorihsan
Format:	Article
Language:	English English English
Published:	Elsevier 2014
Subjects:	HB238 Competition. Production. Wealth HE7601 Telecommunication and industry. Telegraph JF Political institutions (General)
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spelling	iium-337842017-09-27T03:29:03Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/33784/ Telecommunications reform and efficiency performance: do good institutions matter? Mohamad, Noorihsan HB238 Competition. Production. Wealth HE7601 Telecommunication and industry. Telegraph JF Political institutions (General) Until recently, most studies investigating telecommunication reforms performance have failed 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 the stochastic distance function approach to capture the role of institutions in explaining efficiency differences across 70 countries. The empirical analysis reveals that policy stability in the form of separation of powers and substantive checks and balances on executive power is the most important aspect for efficiency improvement through reform. Independently, legal integrity improves telecommunications efficiency through privatization, while greater freedom from corruption influences the effectiveness of a regulatory body. Elsevier 2014-02 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/33784/1/Publish_Version_%28TP-Ihsan%29.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/33784/4/33784-Telecommunications%20reform%20and%20efficiency%20performance_SCOPUS.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/33784/5/33784-elecommunications%20reform%20and%20efficiency%20performance_WOS.pdf Mohamad, Noorihsan (2014) Telecommunications reform and efficiency performance: do good institutions matter? Telecommunications Policy, 38 (1). pp. 49-65. ISSN 0308-5961 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308596113000657 10.1016/j.telpol.2013.04.006
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description	Until recently, most studies investigating telecommunication reforms performance have failed 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 the stochastic distance function approach to capture the role of institutions in explaining efficiency differences across 70 countries. The empirical analysis reveals that policy stability in the form of separation of powers and substantive checks and balances on executive power is the most important aspect for efficiency improvement through reform. Independently, legal integrity improves telecommunications efficiency through privatization, while greater freedom from corruption influences the effectiveness of a regulatory body.
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title	Telecommunications reform and efficiency performance: do good institutions matter?
title_short	Telecommunications reform and efficiency performance: do good institutions matter?
title_full	Telecommunications reform and efficiency performance: do good institutions matter?
title_fullStr	Telecommunications reform and efficiency performance: do good institutions matter?
title_full_unstemmed	Telecommunications reform and efficiency performance: do good institutions matter?
title_sort	telecommunications reform and efficiency performance: do good institutions matter?
publisher	Elsevier
publishDate	2014
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