Bureaucrats as entrepreneurs: Do municipal telecommunications providers hinder private entrepreneurs?
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Bureaucrats as entrepreneurs: Do municipal telecommunications providers hinder private entrepreneurs
We consider how government-owned enterprises affect privately owned rivals. Specifically, we compare the types of markets that municipally owned telecommunications providers in the United States serve to the types of markets that competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) serve. We find that CLECs focus on potential profitability while municipalities appear to respond to other factors, such as...
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عنوان ژورنال: Information Economics and Policy
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0167-6245
DOI: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2007.10.004