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| Tekijä: | Uri, N.D. |
| Otsikko: | The change in productive efficiency in telecommunications in the United States |
| Lehti: | Technology analysis & strategic management
2003 : SEP, VOL. 15:3, p. 385-400 |
| Asiasana: | Efficiency Change Telecommunication USA |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | This paper addresses the question whether the adoption of incentive regulation (which is an important regulatory tool in the telecommunications industry in the USA), has resulted in a change in the technical efficiency of local exchange carriers in the U.S. After providing an overview of the nature of incentive regulation, a methodology for measuring technical efficiency and its change is introduced. This is a multiple-output/multiple-input distance function approach to measuring technical efficiency. The results of implementing this approach for 19 local exchange carriers for the 1988-2001 period indicate that in the production of local service, intrastate toll/access service, and interstate access to local loops, there was no change in technical efficiency btw. the 1988-1990 period and the 1991- 2001 period, something that incentive regulation was specifically designed to promote. |
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