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The Impact of 'Rollover' Contracts on Switching Costs in the UK Voice Market: Evidence from Disaggregate Customer Billing Data
Crawford, Gregory S; Tosini, Nicola; Waehrer, Keith - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In February 2008, British Telecommunications (BT) introduced automatically renewing, or ‘rollover’, contracts into the …. This raises significant concerns about the competitive effects of such contracts in media and telecommunications markets. …
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Welfare Analysis of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates in the UK (with an Application to the Orange/T-Mobile Merger)
Harbord, David; Hoernig, Steffen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper presents results from a calibrated welfare model of the UK mobile telephony market which includes many mobile networks; calls to and from the fixed network; networkbased price discrimination; and call externalities. The analysis focuses on the short-run effects of adopting lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468563
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Some Observations on the British and German 3G Telecom Auctions
Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
I suggest explanations for the apparently puzzling bidding in the year 2000 British and German 3G telecom auctions. Relative-performance maximisation may have been important, but the outcome of the British auction seems to have been efficient. This paper bundles my comments on two papers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123523
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Market Definition in the Telecoms Industry
Gual, Jordi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
assesses whether the general principles need to be adapted when dealing with the telecommunications services industry. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124009
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Market Entry and Roll-out With Product Differentiation
Levine, Paul L; Rickman, Neil; Tzavara, Dionisia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper examines a general problem exemplified by post-auction (third generation ‘3G’) mobile telecommunications …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124418
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Using and Abusing Economic Theory
Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Economic theory is often abused in practical policy-making. There is frequently excessive focus on sophisticated theory at the expense of elementary theory; too much economic knowledge can sometimes be a dangerous thing. Too little attention is paid to the wider economic context, and to the...
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Wholesale Markets in Telecommunications
Bourreau, Marc; Hombert, Johan; Pouyet, Jérôme; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
In telecommunications some operators have deployed their own networks whereas some others have not. The latter firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498041
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The Political Economy of Privatization and Competition: Cross-Country Evidence from the Telecommunications Sector
Colin Xu, Lixin; Li, Wei; Zhen-Wei Qiang, Christine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Using a new data set of the telecommunications sector on privatization (1981-98 for 167 countries) and competition … liberalization in the telecommunications sector. Building on the framework of a generalized private interest theory, we derive … telecommunications sector. We pay particular attention to how the effects of interest groups on policies vary from more democratic to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504478
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Network Competition and Entry Deterrence
Calzada, Joan; Valletti, Tommaso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We develop a model of logit demand that extends to a multi-firm industry the traditional duopoly framework of network competition with access charges. Firstly, we show that, when incumbents do not face the threat of entry and compete in prices, they inefficiently establish the reciprocal access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504712
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What Really Matters in Auction Design
Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The most important issues in auction design are the traditional concerns of competition policy-preventing collusive, predatory, and entry deterring behaviour. Ascending and uniform-price auctions are particularly vulnerable to these problems (we discuss radiospectrum and football TV-rights...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114514