Telecommunications and Regulatory Reform: Methods and Applications

The third chapter explores the relationship between firm revenues and infrastructure in the US telecommunications industry using quantile regression methods. Under certain assumptions such a relationship is used to measure the welfare impact of infrastructure development. It also provides a quantification of the revenue incentives firms have to invest in additional infrastructure. We use a general econometric methodology that allows us to explore the complete distribution of revenues conditional on infrastructure. Our most important finding is that, controlling for other factors, marginal revenue returns to investment in infrastructure decrease with firm size as measured by its revenues.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Economics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Sosa-Escudero, Walter Esteban

Contributors dc:contributor

• Shane Greenstein

• Economics, Commerce-Business

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9904591

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/85633