Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications

Veneta Andonova () and Luis Diaz-Serrano ()
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Veneta Andonova: Universidad de los Andes

No 2569, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality of countries’ political institutions. We estimate the effect of political institutions on the diffusion of three telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of institutions for technologies rather than for industries, we reveal important growth opportunities for developing countries and offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development.

Keywords: telecommunications; political constraints; economic development; GMM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 O3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2007-01
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Published - published as 'Political Institutions and the Development of Telecommunications', Journal of Development Economics, 2009, 89, 77-83

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Working Paper: Political institutions and the development of telecomunications (2006)
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