Lobbying and regulation in a political economy: evidence from the US cellular industry

Abstract: "This paper develops a political-economy model of price regulation. Firms' lobbying activity for a given regulatory status might generate a simultaneity problem between the effects and the determinants of regulatory decisions. We explicitly model this two way causality, and empirically test our model in the U.S. mobile telecommunications industry. We find support for our approach: Regulatory choice should be considered endogenous. Accounting for the simultaneity bias, we show that regulation, whenever it actually took place, did not reduce significantly cellular tariffs. However, it would have been more effective if applied in those markets which have not been regulated. To explain this finding, we show that firms' lobbying activity on regulatory choice has been successful, so that firms were able to avoid regulation in those markets where it would have been more effective. From the political economy side, we provide evidence that the probability of price regulation was higher, cet

Alternative title
Lobbying und Regulierung in einer politischen Ökonomie: Evidenz aus der US-amerikanischen Mobilfunk-Industrie
Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource, 43 S.
Language
Englisch
Notes
Veröffentlichungsversion

Bibliographic citation
Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Marktprozeß und Unternehmensentwicklung ; Bd. 01-03

Keyword
Telekommunikationspolitik
Administrierter Preis
Preisüberwachung
Staatliche Preispolitik
Interessenpolitik
Mobile Telekommunikation
Fernmeldegebühr
Telefongebühr
Flatrate
Schätzung
:z Geschichte 1984-1988
USA

Event
Veröffentlichung
(where)
Berlin
(when)
2001
Creator
Contributor
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-114940
Rights
Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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Associated

  • Duso, Tomaso
  • Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

Time of origin

  • 2001

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