Asymmetric Equilibria and Non-Cooperative Access Pricing in Telecommunications

This paper looks at competition in the Telecommunications industry with non-linear tariffs and network based price discrimination. Allowing for asymmetric networks and non-cooperatively chosen access prices simultaneously allows to explicitly derive non-reciprocal equilibrium access price choices that are above the efficient level.

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Year of publication:	2008-11-27
Authors:	Behringer, Stefan
Institutions:	Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Subject:	Asymmetric Networks \| Access Pricing \| Interconnection \| Competition Policy \| Telecommunications

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	MPRA Paper.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Classification:	L96 - Telecommunications ; L51 - Economics of Regulation ; L41 - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices ; K21 - Antitrust Law ; D40 - Market Structure and Pricing. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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