Regulatory Environment and Firm Performance in EU Telecommunications Services

Daniel Montolio, Trillas Francesc and Elisa Trujillo-Baute
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Trillas Francesc: Public-Private Sector Research Center, IESE Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; and Barcelona Institute of Economics, Carrer Tinent Coronel Valenzuela, 11, 08034 Barcelona, España

Review of Network Economics, 2014, vol. 13, issue 3, 271-302

Abstract: We empirically estimate the effects of regulated access prices and firms’ multinational status on firm performance by using firm, corporate group, and country level information for the European broadband market between 2002 and 2010. Three measures of firm performance are used, namely: market share, revenue and productivity. Special attention is paid to differences in the impact on the performance measures depending on a firm’s position as either a market incumbent or entrant. We find that while access prices have a negative effect on entrants’ market share and revenue, the effect on incumbents’ market share, revenue and productivity is positive. Further, we find that multinational entrants perform better than national entrants in terms of their market share but worse in terms of their revenue and productivity. The opposite is true of incumbent multinationals which perform better than nationals in terms of their revenue and productivity but worse in terms of their market share. This confirms that a firm’s multinational status has a significant impact on its performance, and that this impact differs for incumbents and entrants. Finally, when evaluating the impact of access prices on firm performance at the mean performance of national and multinational firms, we find that the impact of access prices is lower for multinational than for national firms.

Keywords: firm performance; multinational firms; regulation; telecommunications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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