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We estimate a dynamic oligopoly entry game in the early U.S. local telephone market. We observe the identities of potential entrants into local markets and therefore the waiting time of each potential entrant before it commits actual entry. To capture the feature of the data, we allow firms to...
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This paper analyzes the impact on mobile telephony diffusion patterns of the two predominant payment regimes, calling party pays (CPP) and receiving party pays (RPP), for mobile termination services. By applying instrumental variable techniques to panel data we account for a possible...
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This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a repeating AR-GARCH model, I compare the effect of three types of regulation which are categorized based on the addressed subject, i.e. cross-market, country-specific and...
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This paper considers the impact of European telecom regulation on the value of affected companies. Employing a repeating ARGARCH model, I compare the effect of three types of regulation which are categorized based on the addressed subject, i.e. cross-market, country-specific and company-specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008701352
cornerstone of market definition and therefore of effective regulation. This paper explores the access substitution between fixed … 2008-2011 period and apply dynamic panel data methods. Our analysis demonstrates strong access substitution between fixed … in favor of access substitution and therefore of joint market definition. Regulatory obligations imposed on the market …
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Fixed telephony has long been a fundamentally important market for European telecommunications operators. The liberalisation and the introduction of regulation in the end of the 1990s, however, allowed new entrants to compete with incumbents at the retail level. A rapid price decline and a...
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We study the dual relationship between market structure and prices and between market structure and investment in …. Furthermore, they also lead to higher investment per mobile operator, though the impact on total investment is not conclusive. Our …
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This paper investigates the relationship between telecommunications infrastructure competition, investment and …, amongst other things, emanated from encouraging infrastructure investment, in their production processes. Thus the analysis … demonstrates that U.K. government policies on telecommunications and its investment incentives may have wide-reaching consequences …
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, while one is concerned with determinants of investment in ICT networks. The study uses German firm-level data and regional …
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We study the dual relationship between market structure and prices and between market structure and investment in …. Furthermore, they also lead to higher investment per mobile operator, though the impact on total investment is not conclusive. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659539