An alternative perspective on Thailand’s telecommunications regulatory governance index

Benjapon Prommawin ()
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Benjapon Prommawin: Chiang Mai University

The Empirical Econometrics and Quantitative Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 2, issue 4, 33 – 38

Abstract: This paper proposes a revised calculation of the telecommunications regulatory governance index (TRGI) for Thailand. It criticizes the work of Woverman and Koutroumpis (2011) and revises the calculation using the officially up-to-date data from International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in 2012 and extended data in the Thai language from the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) in 2013. The authors of the original work might not be able to access to these data in 2008 in which the governance body, NBTC, was just established in Thailand. As the result, the TRGI index of Thailand jumps from 0.11 to 0.33 by only the change of the period of the calculation from 2008 to 2012 using solely the ITU’s data. It increases to the range of 0.53 to 0.73 combining with the data from NBTC in 2013. By these new numbers, Thailand’s rank of the telecommunications regulatory governance is quite equivalent to the ranks of Singapore and Malaysia where the transparency of the governance is undoubtful.

Keywords: Telecommunication sector; governance; anti-trust policy; economics of regulation; transparency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L40 L51 L96 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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