Regulations, Institutions, and Commitment: Comparative Studies of Telecommunications

Foreword Douglass North Series editor's preface Preface List of contributors 1. A framework for resolving the regulatory problem Brian Levy and Pablo T. Spiller 2. Telecommunications regulation in Jamaica Pablo T. Spiller and Cezley I. Sampson 3. The United Kingdom: a pacesetter in regulatory incentives Pablo T. Spiller and Ingo Vogelsang 4. Chile: regulatory specificity, credibility of commitment, and distributional demands Ahmed Galal 5. The political economy of the telecommunications sector in the Philippines Hadi Salehi Esfahani 6. Argentina: the sequencing of privatization and regulation Alice Hill and Manuel Angel Abdala Notes References Index.