Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62808 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 501
Publisher: 
Queen Mary University of London, Department of Economics, London
Abstract: 
This paper analyses whether scale economies exists in the UK telecommunications industry. The approach employed differs from other UK studies in that panel data for a range of companies is used. This increases the number of observations and thus allows potentially for more robust tests for global subadditivity of the cost function. The main findings from the study reveal that although the results need to be treated with some caution allowing/encouraging infrastructure competition in the local loop may result in substantial cost savings
Subjects: 
Telecommunications, Regulation, Monopoly, Cost functions, Scale economies, Subadditivity
JEL: 
D42
L11
L12
L51
L96
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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