New Tools for Studying Network Industry Reforms in Developing Countries: The Telecommunications and Electricity Regulation Database

Infrastructure industries-including telecommunications, electricity, water, and gas-underwent massive structural changes in the 1990s. During that decade, hundreds of privatization transactions valued at billions of dollars were completed in these sectors in developing and transition economies. While privatization has received the most attention, reforms also included market liberalization, structural changes like unbundling, and the introduction of new laws and regulations. To date, regulations have received far less attention than their potential economic effects warrant, largely due to lack of data. In order to address this problem, the authors set out to compile a comprehensive and consistent dataset through an extensive survey of telecommunications and electricity regulators in developing countries. The authors describe the surveys and the resulting database. The database of telecommunications regulations includes 178 variables on regulatory governance and content in 45 countries. The database of electricity regulations includes 374 variables in 20 countries.

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Main Authors: Wallsten, Scott, Clarke, George, Haggarty, Luke, Kaneshiro, Rosario, Noll, Roger, Shirley, Mary, Colin Xu, Lixin
Language:English
en_US
Published: World Bank, Washington, D.C. 2004-04
Subjects:INFRASTRUCTURE, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, ELECTRICITY, WATER, GAS, ELECTRICITY PRIVATIZATION, NATURAL GAS PRIVATIZATION, TRANSITION ECONOMIES, MARKET LIBERALIZATION, UNBUNDLING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS REGULATION, GOVERNANCE, ELECTRICITY REGULATION ACCOUNTABILITY, ACCOUNTING, AIRPORTS, APPROPRIATIONS, COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS, COMPETITION POLICY, CORRUPTION, DECISION-MAKING, DEREGULATION, DISPUTE RESOLUTION, ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, ECONOMIC DEREGULATION, ECONOMIC REGULATION, ECONOMISTS, EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS, EMPIRICAL RESEARCH, ENGINEERS, FISCAL, FISCAL CRISES, GOVERNMENT AGENCY, GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS, INCOME, INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS, INFRASTRUCTURE REGULATION, INSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATIONS, INTEGRATED MONOPOLY, LEVIES, LICENSES, MARKET POWER, NATURAL MONOPOLIES, NATURAL MONOPOLY, PORTS, POSTAL SERVICES, PRIVATE SECTOR, REGULATOR, REGULATORS, REGULATORY AGENCIES, REGULATORY AGENCY, REGULATORY AUTHORITIES, REGULATORY AUTHORITY, REGULATORY BODIES, REGULATORY BODY, REGULATORY FRAMEWORK, REGULATORY INSTITUTIONS, REGULATORY MECHANISMS, REGULATORY POLICIES, REGULATORY REGIMES, ROADS, TECHNICIANS, TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS, TELECOMMUNICATION, TELECOMMUNICATIONS LAW, TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORM, TELECOMMUNICATIONS REFORMS, TELECOMMUNICATIONS SECTOR, TELECOMS, TRANSPARENCY, UNIVERSAL SERVICE, UNIVERSAL SERVICE OBLIGATIONS, UTILITIES, VETO,
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2004/04/3575102/new-tools-studying-network-industry-reforms-developing-countries-telecommunications-electricity-regulation-database
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/14304
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