CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Kovács, Judit Renáta |
|---|---|
| Title | Economic and legal analysis of the United Arab Emirates' telecommunications market |
| Summary | This thesis focuses to understand the current market position and situation of the UAE’s telecommunications market. It is recognised throughout the research that the UAE’s telecommunications industry is centralized by government and basically there is no competitive market but a larger monopoly run by two firms. It is also acknowledged that such a phenomena is causing huge losses to consumers and social welfare. It would be ideal to find an economic improvement for the UAE’s telecommunications market with the help of necessary amendments in competition law. There will be an examination whether liberating the telecommunications market brings the desired economic outcome as minimizing consumers’ loss and increasing social welfare. There can be no economic alteration done without making the necessary policy suggestions in UAE’s competition law therefore we will examine the system of matured competitive nations of EU and US in order to be able to come up with sufficient recommendations. Since we are aware of the limitations of this research, furthermore that there are certain reasons behind the already existing legislation gaps; therefore we are not aiming to find the best but a possible arrangement. As this thesis will cover two areas in the analysis; specifically a legal part and an economics part; therefore there will be these two types of researches simultaneously conducted. Despite of the economic findings of insufficient welfare state of consumers due to monopoly dominance in the industry; it is in the very interest of the government and their state owned Telecommunications Company that they remain centralized due to supernormal profits as the UAE’s legislative pillar is not based on democracy but it has a Sheikhdom government structure. |
| Supervisor | Caterina Sganga and Andrzej Baniak |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/kovacs_judit.pdf |
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