Endogenous Deregulation: Evidence from OECD Countries

Posted: 13 Nov 2003

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Tomaso Duso

German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin); TU Berlin- Faculty of Economics and Management - Empirical Industrial Organization; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Lars-Hendrik Röller

ESMT European School of Management and Technology; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); WZB Berlin Social Science Center - Competitiveness and Industrial Change

Abstract

This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the effect of endogenous deregulation on productivity. We find that treating deregulation across OECD countries as an exogenous event overestimates the competitive impact of deregulation on productivity by as much as 40%.

Keywords: Deregulation, Telecommunications, Political economy

JEL Classification: D7, L5, L8

Suggested Citation

Duso, Tomaso and Röller, Lars-Hendrik, Endogenous Deregulation: Evidence from OECD Countries. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=467346

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