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Mobile Termination and Mobile Penetration

Hurkens, Sjaak; Jeon, Doh-Shin - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2009

In this paper, we study how access pricing affects network competition when subscription demand is elastic and each network uses non-linear prices and can apply termination-based price discrimination. In the case of a fixed per minute termination charge, we find that a reduction of the...

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Empirical evidence on the impact of privatization of fixed-line operators on telecommunications performance - Comparing OECD, Latin American, and African countries

Gasmi, Farid; Maingard, Alexis; Noumba Um, Paul; … - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2011

The aim of this paper is to highlight empirically some important worldwide differences in the impact of privatization of the fixed-line telecommunications operator on network expansion, tariffs, and efficiency during the 1985-2007 period for a large panel of countries. Our work suggests that the...

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The Determinants and Impact of Telecommunications Reforms in Developing Countries

Gasmi, Farid; Recuero Virto, Laura - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2009

This paper has two related objectives. First, it seeks to identify the key determinants of some policies that have been at the heart of the reforms of the telecommunications industry in developing countries, namely, liberalization, privatization, and the (re)structuring of regulation. Second, it...

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Cooperation vs. Collusion: How Essentiality Shapes Co-opetition

Rey, Patrick; Tirole, Jean - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2013

The paper makes two related contributions. First, and in contrast with the rich body of literature on collusion with (mainly perfect) substitutes, it derives general results on the sustainability of tacit coordination for a class of nested demand functions that allows for the full range between...

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Merger, Product Differentiation, and Trade Policy

Cavagnac, Michel; Cheikbossian, Guillaume - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2013

In a two-stage game with three firms and two countries, we study the profitability of a domestic merger in the context of an international oligopoly game with differentiated products and in a strategic trade policy environment. In contrast to a completely unregulated economy, we show that the...

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Exclusive Dealing and Vertical Integration in Interlocking Relationships

Nocke, Volker; Rey, Patrick - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2014

We develop a model of interlocking bilateral relationships between upstream manufacturers that produce differentiated goods and downstream retailers that compete imperfectly for consumers. Contract offers and acceptance decisions are private information to the contracting parties. We show that...

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Credit Rating Industry: a Helicopter Tour of Stylized Facts and Recent Theories

Jeon, Doh-Shin; Lovo, Stefano - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2013

The recent subprime crisis and the ongoing Euro zone crisis have generated an enormous interest in the credit rating industry not only among economists but also among average citizens. As a consequence, we have seen an explosion of the economic literature on the industry. The objective of this...

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Cooperation in the Presence of an Advantaged Outsider

Cheikbossian, Guillaume; Mahenc, Philippe - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2012

This paper analyzes how the stability of the tacit cooperation within a fringe of sev- eral identical ?rms is a … the ?rms of the fringe adopt ?stick and carrot?strategies à la Abreu (1986, 1988) to support cooperation, while the … sustainable and focus on the most cooperative symmetric punishment (MCSP) that sustains cooperation. We show that the MCSP is …

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Inventories and Endogenous Stackelberg Leadership in Two-period Cournot Oligopoly

Mitraille, Sébastien; Moreaux, Michel - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2011

Two-period Cournot competition between n identical firms producing at constant marginal cost and able to store before selling has pure strategy Nash- perfect equilibria, in which some firms store to exert endogenously a leader- ship over rivals. The number of firms storing balances market share...

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News Aggregators and Competition Among Newspapers in the Internet

Esfahani, Nikrooz; Jeon, Doh-Shin - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) - 2013

We study how the presence of a news aggregator affects quality choices of newspapers competing on the Internet. To provide a microfoundation for the role of the aggregator, we build a model of multiple issues where each newspaper chooses quality on each issue. This model captures the...

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