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Impact of roaming regulation on revenues and prices of mobile operators in the EU
Grzybowski, Lukasz; Muñoz-Acevedo, Ángela - 2021
We empirically assess the impact of the EU roaming regulation on mobile operators' average revenues per user (ARPU) and retail prices. Using a differences-in-difference approach, hedonic price regressions and detailed operator and plan-level data we find that the regulation decreased mobile...
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Evaluating the impact of price caps : evidence from the European roam-like-at-home regulation
Canzian, Giulia; Mazzarella, Gianluca; Verboven, Frank; … - 2021
The roam-like-at-home regulation (RLAH) eliminated all mobile roaming surcharges to Eu-ropean consumers travelling within the European Economic Area (EEA). We measure the causal impact of the regulation on EEA roaming traffic, using the Rest of the World as a control group. We find large and...
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Modeling inter-regional patient mobility : does distance go far enough?
Irlacher, Michael; Pennerstorfer, Dieter; Renner, … - 2021
This paper estimates a theory-guided gravity equation of regional patient flows. In our model, a patient’s choice to consult a physician in a particular region depends on a measure of spatial accessibility that accounts for the exact locations of both patients and physicians. Introducing this...
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Liberation technology : mobile phones and political mobilization in Africa
Manacorda, Marco; Tesei, Andrea - 2016 - This version: March 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...
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Asymmetric neutrality regulation and innovation at the edges : fixed vs. mobile networks
Choi, Jay Pil; Jeon, Doh-Shin; Kim, Byung-Cheol - 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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The German UMTS design : insights from multi-object auction theory
Ewerhart, Christian; Moldovanu, Benny - 2002
We briefly survey several insights about value and revenue maximization in multi-object auctions and apply them to the German (and Austrian) UMTS auction. In particular, we discuss in detail the exposure problem that caused firms in Germany to pay almost Euro 20 billion for nothing.
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The Swiss UMTS spectrum auction flop : bad luck or bad design
Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2001
This paper gives an account of events, and explains some systematic reasons of the UMTS auction flop in Switzerland. Apart from general market developments, which could not have been anticipated, we argue that auctiondesign which was introduced in England and adopted in Switzerland and elsewhere...
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The third generation (UMTS) spectrum auction in Germany
Grimm, Veronika; Riedel, Frank; Wolfstetter, Elmar - 2001
The third generation UMTS auction in Germany raised an enormous amount of revenue, and at the same time achieved a more competitive market structure than other UMTS auctions in Europe. The present paper explains the design of that auction, and presents a game theoretic explanation of observed...
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Self-preferencing, quality provision, and welfare in mobile application markets
Teng, Xuan - 2022
Platforms may give preferential treatment to their own products in search results. Whether and how to regulate this self-preferencing behavior is an intensely debated antitrust issue. This paper identifies self-preferencing and quantifies its equilibrium welfare effects in Apple App Store. I...
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Tax-co-ordination in Europe : assessing the first years of the EU-savings taxation directive
Hemmelgarn, Thomas; Nicodème, Gae͏̈tan J.A. - 2009
This paper reviews the economic effects of the EU Savings Taxation Directive. The Directive aims at enabling taxation … savings. However, this result has to be interpreted with caution since the available data is scarce and not always conclusive …. -- savings taxation ; withholding tax ; information exchange ; European Union …
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