The political economy of privatization and competition: Cross-country evidence from the telecommunications sector

Journal of Comparative Economics

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 439-462

  Li, Wei ^a   Xu, Lixin Colin ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b WORLD BANK   (United States)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Competition; Democracy; Political economy; Political structure; Privatization; Special interest groups; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036742495     PISSN: 01475967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jcec.2002.1791     Document Type: Article

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