Universal service obligations in LDCs: The effect of uniform pricing on infrastructure access

Journal of Public Economics - Tập 90 Số 6-7 - Trang 1155-1179 - 2006
Antonio Estache1,2, Jean‐Jacques Laffont3, Xinzhu Zhang4
1ESCARES, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
2World Bank, Washington, D.C. 20433, USA
3IDEI and Université des Sciences Sociales, Place Anatole, 31042 Toulouse Cedex, France
4Research Center for Regulation and Competition, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100732, P.R. China

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