Multidimensional Performance in Telecommunications, Regulation and Competition: Analysing the European Major Players

Giovanni Fraquelli () and Davide Vannoni
Additional contact information
Giovanni Fraquelli: Ceris - Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth,Turin, Italy

CERIS Working Paper from CNR-IRCrES Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth - Torino (TO) ITALY - former Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth - Moncalieri (TO) ITALY

Abstract: In this paper we adopt the methodology developed by Banker et al. (1993) in order to investigate the dynamics of the different components of performance for the major European telecommunications operators during the period 1989-1993. The results show a general improvement in productivity levels and a reduction in the ratio between output and input prices. The best productivity performances were attained by the British and (to a lesser degree) the French utilities, while only British Telecommunications was remarkably reducing output prices. These findings are consistent with the view that incentive regulation is useful to enhance efficiency but the introduction and the promotion of competition seems to be more effective in reducing the price levels.

JEL-codes: L96 M40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages Keywords :Telecommunications, Performance, Regulation
Date: 1998-12
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.byterfly.eu/islandora/object/librib:370086 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Multidimensional performance in telecommunications, regulation and competition: analysing the European major players (2000)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:csc:cerisp:199809

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CERIS Working Paper from CNR-IRCrES Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth - Torino (TO) ITALY - former Institute for Economic Research on Firms and Growth - Moncalieri (TO) ITALY Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Anna Perin () and Giancarlo Birello ().