Time period

1991-1997

Unit of observation

24 OECD countries

Sources

• The OECD Telecom Database
• Various OECD Databases http://stats.oecd.org/
• Manifesto Research Group of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
• Lijphart (1999) and Persson and Tabellini (1999) measures of political institutions

The Data are partially proprietary

The data set, merged from different databases, constitutes a unique source of information for analyzing the politics of telecom regulation. It contains facts about the liberalization process, the market structure, and the regulatory environment in OECD countries and, additionally, it includes information on these countries' institutional and political environment.

• The Political Economy of Mobile Telecommunications Liberalization: Evidence from the OECD Countries.
  Tomaso Duso & Jo Seldeslachts

  Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, 38, 2, 199-216.

• Prof. Dr. Tomaso Duso