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Privatization, Liberalization Of The Greek Telecommunication Sectors: A Social Cost – Benefit Analysis, Lorena Alikaj, Matilda Veliu

UBT International Conference

With pressure from IMF and lately from the EU, privatization has become the key dimension of the world capital markets over the past three decades, and European Union has been the international leader in selling state-owned productive assets (national wealth) to the private sector (mostly to foreign firms) (Kallianiotis, 2007). The Greek Telecommunication industry as part of EU Telecommunication sector has experienced enormous changes in this period too. In this paper we have obtained the main economic indicators of the Greek Telecommunications industry, and report a social cost -benefit analysis of the privatization and liberalization of the Greek Telecommunications sector …