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Evaluating Market Consolidation in Mobile Communications
Genakos, Christos - 2017
mobile telecommunications. Using a uniquely constructed panel of mobile operators' prices and accounting information across … findings are not only relevant for the current consolidation wave in the telecommunications industry. More generally, they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953486
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Liberation Technology : Mobile Phones and Political Mobilization in Africa
Manacorda, Marco - 2016
Can digital information and communication technology (ICT) foster mass political mobilization? We use a novel geo-referenced dataset for the entire African continent between 1998 and 2012 on the coverage of mobile phone signal together with georeferenced data from multiple sources on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988970
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Strategic Complexities in the Combinatorial Clock Auction
Gretschko, Vitali; Knapek, Stephan; Wambach, Achim - 2021
In recent years, regulatory bodies in Europe and around the world implemented Combinatorial Clock Auctions (CCA) to allocate scarce and valuable spectrum frequencies usage rights. Although the auction design is complex, the promise is that bidding becomes simple. More precisely, bidders may bid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315845
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Chinese Experience with Global 3G Standard-Setting
Whalley, John - 2009
China's growth strategy as set out in the 11th 5-year plan in 2005 called for upgrading of product quality, the … with this policy, China has been involved in recent years with the development of a Chinese standard in third generation (3 … first case of a developing country both originating and successfully negotiating a telecommunications standard and this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764968
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Assessing Market (Dis)Integration in Early Modern China and Europe
Bernhofen, Daniel M. - 2015
This paper challenges established claims of comparable degrees of market integration in Europe and China on the eve of … process of market disintegration in 221 prefectures of Qing China. Comparing our results with those for grain price panels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011330
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Asymmetric Neutrality Regulation and Innovation at the Edges : Fixed vs. Mobile Networks
Choi, Jay Pil - 2014
We study how net neutrality regulations affect a high-bandwidth content provider's (CP) investment incentives in quality of services (QoS). We find that the effects crucially depend on network capacity levels. With limited capacity, as in mobile networks, prioritized delivery services are...
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Cities and the Structure of Social Interactions : Evidence from Mobile Phone Data
Büchel, Konstantin - 2017
Social interactions are considered pivotal to agglomeration economies. We explore a unique dataset on mobile phone calls to examine how distance and population density shape the structure of social interactions. Exploiting an exogenous change in travel times, we show that distance is highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012950281
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Regulation and Barriers to Trade in Telecommunications Services in the European Union
Cave, Martin E. - 2009
Recent advances in telecommunications, particularly using fibre technologies, permit many services based on data … to create a level playing field between the country's former telecommunications monopolist and foreign competitors and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158458
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Price-Dependent Profit Sharing as an Escape from the Bertrand Paradox
Foros, Øystein - 2007
In this paper we show how an upstream firm can prevent destructive competition among downstream firms producing relatively close substitutes by implementing a price-dependent profit-sharing rule. The rule also ensures that the downstream firms undertake investments which benefit the industry in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777494
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Broadband Infrastructure and Economic Growth
Czernich, Nina - 2012
We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel of OECD countries in 1996-2007. Our instrumental-variable model derives its non-linear first stage from a logistic diffusion model where pre-existing voice-telephony and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013116573