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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...

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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,...

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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...

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Vertical separation vs. independent downstream entry in the Spanish electricity network: An experimental approach

Georgantzis, Nikolaos; Fatas, Enrique; Gutierrez-Hita, … - NET Institute - 2007

We present experimental results from a series of sessions organized using the Power Market simulator; a software designed to realistically replicate the Spanish Electricity Market. In the experiments reported here we compare the status quo to two alternative treatments which represent...

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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 …

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Mobile Termination and Consumer Expectations under the Receiver-Pays Regime

Hurkens, Sjaak; López, Ángel Luis - NET Institute - 2010

We analyze how termination charges affect retail prices when taking into account that receivers derive some utility from a call and when firms may charge consumers for receiving calls. A novel feature of our paper is that we consider passive self-fulfilling expectations and do not allow for...

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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 …

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Product Compatibility in Network Industries with Switching Costs

Chen, Jiawei - NET Institute - 2010

This paper investigates how switching costs affect product compatibility and market dynamics in network industries. A reduction in the switching cost makes the firms' products more attractive relative to the outside good, which diminishes the market expansion benefit of making products...

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Substitution and Complementarity between Fixed-line and Mobile Access

Grzybowski, Lukasz; Verboven, Frank - NET Institute - 2013

We use rich survey data on 133,825 households from 27 EU countries during 2005-2011 to analyze substitution between fixed-line and mobile telecommunications services. We estimate a discrete choice model where households may choose between having mobile or fixed-line voice access only, or using...

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Competition in Mobile Telephony in France and Germany

Grzybowski, Lukasz; Karamti, Chiraz - NET Institute - 2007

This paper provides an insight into the antitrust investigation initiated by the French competition authority, which found that mobile operators exchanged strategic information and agreed to fix market shares in years the 2000-2002. The empirical analysis is based on the comparison of mobile...

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