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"Determinants of Competition in a Context of Services Trade Liberalization: Analysis of Market Power of Firms in African Telecommunications Industry" by Calvin, Djiofack Zebaze Abstract This paper assesses the determinants of market power in telecommunications industry in Africa using multiple-indicator-multiple-causes (MIMIC) of a single latent variable estimation. Based on aggregated data from 30 African countries between 1997 and 2004, three sets of results emerge from our empirical analysis: the African telecommunications industry faces significant market power practices. Three main policy factors seem to be affecting negatively this market power: the unilateral efforts in terms of liberalization (increasing in number of operators) as well as strengthening of sectoral regulation, and the multilateral commitments to liberalize in the framework of the GATS. In opposite, it appears that multimarket contact effect of telecommunications operators ( in competition on more than one market simultaneously) is an important factor enhancing the cooperative pricing behavior in Africa. |
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- Trade in services - Economic development - Africa (Central) - Africa (East) - Africa (West) - Africa (Southern) |
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Public Access  2009 Conference Paper (420.9 KB) Replicated: 0 time(s)Restricted Access No documents have been attached. Special Instructions No instructions have been specified. |
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