. This study examines the effects of sector regulation on innovation in telecommunications and related information industries …) were utilized to test the effects of sectoral regulation. In line with other studies of the effects of regulation on … innovation, the study finds that more stringent regulation had a statistically significant negative effect on the number of …

ways. While the period is characterized by a shift toward less direct state intervention, the intensity of regulation has …

findings, with some pointing to the advantages and other to the disadvantages of this arrangement. Government regulation of … government ownership and regulation might help overcome some of the shortcomings of the regulation of private firms. We find weak … evidence that public and mixed regulated firms were subject to more favourable regulation of interconnection prices. However …