Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 90
Cover Image
Market Penetration and Late Entry in Mobile Telephony
Hoernig, Steffen - NET Institute - 2008
We consider some two dynamic models of entry in mobile telephony, with and without strategic pricing, and taking into account market penetration at entry, locked-in consumers and tariff-mediated network externalities. We show that on/off-net differentials may reduce the possibility of entry if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585489
Cover Image
Does Regulation Drive Competition? Evidence from the Spanish Local TV Industry
Gil, Ricard; Nishida, Mitsukuni - NET Institute - 2012
Although we have many tools to understand the effect of regulation on competition, we know little about the importance … of enforcement in explaining the impact of regulation. For this purpose, this paper uses data from Spanish local … with the introduction of regulation and a posterior liberalization. During this period, the television industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905469
Cover Image
Network Neutrality and Congestion Sensitive Content Providers: Implications for Service Innovation, Broadband Investment and Regulation
Kraemer, Jan; Wiewiorra, Lukas - NET Institute - 2010
We consider a two-sided market model with a monopolistic Internet Service Provider (ISP), network congestion sensitive content providers (CPs), and Internet customers in order to study the impact of Quality-of-Service (QoS) tiering on service innovation, broadband investments, and welfare in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008673514
Cover Image
Incentives to Invest and to Give Access to Non-Regulated Next Generation Networks
Brito, Duarte; Pereira, Pedro; Vareda, João - NET Institute - 2008
We analyze the incentives of a telecommunications incumbent to invest and give access to a downstream entrant to a next generation network. We model the industry as a duopoly, where a vertically integrated incumbent and a downstream entrant, that requires access to the incumbent's network,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622682
Cover Image
A Retail Benchmarking Approach to Efficient Two-Way Access Pricing: Termination-Based Price Discrimination with Elastic Subscription Demand
Hurkens, Sjaak; Jeon, Doh-Shin - NET Institute - 2008
We study how access pricing affects network competition when consumers' subscription demand is elastic and networks compete with non-linear prices and can use termination-based price discrimination. In the case of a fixed per minute termination charge, our model generalizes the results of Gans...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622706
Cover Image
To Surcharge or Not To Surcharge? A Two-Sided Market Perspective of the No-Surcharge Rule
Economides, Nicholas; Henriques, David - NET Institute - 2011
-by-market basis instead of imposing a uniform regulation for all markets. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352209
Cover Image
Net Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis
Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - NET Institute - 2007
We discuss the benefits of net neutrality regulation in the context of a two-sided market model in which platforms sell … Internet. When access is monopolized, we find that generally net neutrality regulation (that imposes zero fees “on the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005760651
Cover Image
Net Neutrality on the Internet: A Two-sided Market Analysis
Economides, Nicholas; Tåg, Joacim - NET Institute - 2007
We discuss the benefits of net neutrality regulation in the context of a two-sided market model in which platforms sell … Internet. When access is monopolized, we find that generally net neutrality regulation (that imposes zero fees “on the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005585461
Cover Image
The Economics of Network Neutrality
Economides, Nicholas; Hermalin, Benjamin - NET Institute - 2010
Pricing of Internet access has been characterized by two properties. Parties are directly billed only by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) through which they connect to the Internet and the ISP charges them on the basis of the amount of information transmitted rather than its content. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008763998
Cover Image
The Welfare Effects of Mobile Termination Rate Regulation in Asymmetric Oligopolies: the Case of Spain
Hurkens, Sjaak; López, Ángel Luis - NET Institute - 2011
We examine the effects of mobile termination rate regulation in asymmetric oligopolies. We do this by extending …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358864