the openness of a country’s services regime. Such openness measures are constructed for two key service sectors, basic … telecommunications and financial services. Finally, it provides some econometric evidence-relatively strong for the financial sector and … less strong, but nevertheless statistically significant, for the telecommunications sector-that openness in services …

We use firm-level data for France and Italy to explore the impact of service regulation reform implemented in the two …

In most countries, competition in the telecommunications industry is subject to both sector-specific regulation and …Der Wettbewerb im Telekommunikationssektor unterliegt in den meisten Ländern sowohl sektorspezifischer Regulierung als … has to be filled with concrete decisions in the fields of antitrust and regulation. More importantly, it must be …