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This paper investigates the impacts of the current roaming rules on domestic competition and welfare. We consider a …
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competition. The European Commission, in trying to improve the wholesale roaming market, caused the introduction of a system of … non-discriminatory prices that were not subject to competition but instead to low levels of price transparency and with … partners, demonstrating little evidence of competition. Analyses of the wholesale markets by national regulators revealed …
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This paper empirically investigates market behavior and firms' lobbying in a unified structural setup. In a sequential game, where firms lobby for regulation before they compete in the product market, we derive a testable measure of lobbying coordination. Applying the setting to the early U.S....
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rivals from getting the spectrum needed to compete effectively. Thus, regulators typically attempt to protect competition …
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Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which give rise to new questions of access fee regulation. In this paper we consider a model with two types of asymmetry arising from different entry timing, i.e. a larger reputation for...
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This paper analyzes how competition works in mobile telecommunications markets and, based on this analysis, we discuss … understanding competition in mobile telephony, is the fact that building a mobile telephone network requires highly specific … interconnection and fixed-to-mobile termination may give rise to competition problems. As we argue in this paper, closer analysis …
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This paper examines the effects of spectrum auctions on mobile market competition. A simple theoretical model suggests …
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Despite a general trend of lower charges for mobile calls, in Europe prices for international roaming calls have remained at levels surprisingly high. The apparent reluctance of mobile network operators to lower roaming tariffs is generating many antitrust concerns. This paper presents in a two...
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The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the Rest of the World as a control group. We find large and...
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show that competition was more intense in those states where campaign contributions by the cellular industry have been …
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