Returning to Victorian Competition, Ownership, and Regulation
An Empirical Study of European Telecommunications at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10104899 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott Wallsten (0000-0003-4281-2464, American Enterprise Institute, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 693-722 |
| Publication date | 2005-08-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050705000252 |
| OpenAlex | W2162781003 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
| References cited | 26 |
This article uses an original dataset to test the effects of government monopoly service, competition, and regulation on the development of the telephone industry in Europe in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Like today, there were stateowned monopolies in some countries, vigorous competition in others, and others with private firms operating under restrictive concessions. The main determinant of government control of the telephone sector was the state's involvement in the telegraph. Countries with competition between telephone providers and whose governments did not threaten to expropriate firms' assets saw higher telephone penetration and lower prices, even in rural areas
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| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2023 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 12 |