LIBERALIZATION AND PERFORMANCE OF MOBILE NETWORKS: ANALYSIS WITH INTERACTION EFFECT IN PANEL DATA MODEL

Several studies explore the effect of regulation, competition and privatization separately on telecommunication performance industry. Our goal is to study the interaction effect between three indicators on the mobile market performance with the literature through the interaction effect Model, among the panel data analysis methods. Our econometric study involves a sample of 18 countries from Arab World over the time period (1992, 2008). We found a strong positive correlation between regulation and the two performance indicators. This correlation is quite remarkable especially when done estimate both competition and privatization with the regulation and independency.