Does incentive regulation 'cause' degradation of retail telephone service quality?

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 243-269

  Banerjee, Aniruddha ^a  

^a NERA ECONOMIC CONSULTING   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic panel data model; Granger causality; Incentive regulation; Incumbent local exchange carrier; Retail service quality

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMICS; PRODUCTIVITY; TELEPHONE SETS;

INCENTIVE REGULATION;

TELECOMMUNICATION;

PANEL DATA; REGULATORY APPROACH; RETAILING; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037933362     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6245(02)00096-3     Document Type: Article

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