Autor según el artículo: Calzada, J; Diaz-Serrano, L
Departamento: Economia
Autor/es de la URV: Díaz Serrano, Luis
Palabras clave: Regulatory agencies Liberalization union privatization prices investment institutional foundations inflation governance europeanization european union euro empirical-evidence competition
Resumen: Government departments have diverse interests, and on certain occasions, the need to achieve a priority objective in one department may lead to the adoption of inefficient policies in other areas, with long-lasting consequences. In this paper, we analyze the rebalancing of the telecommunications tariffs that took place in the European Union before and after the liberalization of the market in 1998. We show that the objective of satisfying the Maastricht inflation condition to allow participation in the European Monetary Union from 1999 led some national governments to block the rebalancing of telecommunications tariffs. Specifically, we demonstrate that in the years immediately before the liberalization of the telecommunications market, those countries that faced greater difficulty achieving the inflation objectives of the Maastricht Treaty reduced, rather than increased, the prices of local telephone calls and line rental. Furthermore, these countries did not intensify efforts to rebalance their tariffs after the creation of the euro. Our paper also shows that in this period the countries that diverged most from the inflation condition invested less in their telecommunications infrastructure.
Áreas temáticas: Telecommunications Saúde coletiva Nutrição Management, monitoring, policy and law Management information systems Library and information sciences Interdisciplinar Information systems Information science & library science Información y documentación Human factors and ergonomics Engenharias iii Electrical and electronic engineering Economics and econometrics Economia Comunicació i informació Communication Ciencias sociales Ciência da computação
Acceso a la licencia de uso: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Direcció de correo del autor: luis.diaz@urv.cat luis.diaz@urv.cat
Identificador del autor: 0000-0001-9479-5091 0000-0001-9479-5091
Fecha de alta del registro: 2023-12-17
Versión del articulo depositado: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
URL Documento de licencia: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Referencia al articulo segun fuente origial: Telecommunications Policy. 47 (1): 102458-
Referencia de l'ítem segons les normes APA: Calzada, J; Diaz-Serrano, L (2023). Conflicting national policies: The creation of the euro and the rebalancing of telecommunications prices. Telecommunications Policy, 47(1), 102458-. DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102458
DOI del artículo: 10.1016/j.telpol.2022.102458
Entidad: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Año de publicación de la revista: 2023
Tipo de publicación: Journal Publications
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