The intense adoption of Information Technology by businesses and government have increased data consumption across the world. While some countries have augmented their telecom infrastructure, data speeds are still very low in countries such as India. In this paper, we collected about 25 million...

Artificial intelligence and associated technology advances have progressively diffused from routine tasks to non-routine tasks, causing disruptions in the labour market. In this work, we study the effect of automation on the labour market outcomes for low-skilled and high-skilled workers. We use...

In most countries, the command and control approach is usually the starting point of the liberalization of the telecommunications industry, which had previously been entirely in the public sector. The command and control approach is useful for achieving early roll-out and rapid growth. However,...

In this study, we investigate empirically the relationship between telephone penetration and economic growth, using data for developing countries. Using 3SLS, we estimate a system of equations that endogenizes economic growth and telecom penetration. We find that the traditional economic factors...

The telecommunications market has evolved into product-differentiatedmarkets due to the varying quality of data services. Earlier work has takenonly the price into account and has not considered quality, which is, however,an essential factor. We provide a supply-demand framework considering...

The Simultaneous Multiple Round Ascending Auction (SMRA) pioneered by Milgrom, Wilson and McAfee in 1994 has become a defacto standard auction mechanism for the award of radio spectrum for commercial mobile services around the world. The winning bid price in such SMRA spectrum auctions is of...

The introduction of Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) has been challenged by several technical, economic and regulatory factors. This study analyzes market structure conditions in terms of industry openness and spectrum policy for introducing DSM technologies into mobile markets, developing a...

The introduction of Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM) has been challenged by several technical, economic and regulatory factors. This study analyzes market structure conditions in terms of industry openness and spectrum policy for introducing DSM technologies into mobile markets, developing a...

Globalization of software development has resulted in a rapid shift away from the traditional collocated, on-site development model, to the offshoring model. Emerging trends indicate an increasing interest in offshoring even in early phases like requirements analysis. Additionally, the...