Liberalizing telecommunications in Europe: path dependency and institutional complementarities

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 132-154

  Belloc, Filippo ^a   Nicita, Antonio ^b   Parcu, Pier Luigi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Competition; liberalization; path dependency; telecommunications

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870614364     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2012.693409     Document Type: Article

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