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Estimating Demand for Cellular Phone Service under Nonlinear Pricing
Huang, Ching-I - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Cellular phone carriers typically offer complicated nonlinear tariffs. Consumers make a discrete choice among several rate plans. Each plan has a nonlinear price schedule, and price is usually lower for in-network calls. I present an empirical framework to estimate demand under such nonlinear...
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Evolución de la Eficiencia Productiva de una empresa privatizada: El Caso del Grupo Telefónica de España
Massón-Guerra, José Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Este trabajo trata de comprobar si la eficiencia productiva del Grupo Telefónica S.A. de España ha mejorado luego de ser privatizada. Se ha utilizado este caso por ser una empresa representativa en la industria de las telecomunicaciones globales. La evidencia empírica indica que las empresas...
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Gasoline price asymmetries in the Euro Zone
Polemis, Michail; Fotis, Panagiotis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper uses the generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation to a panel data error correction model (ECM) in order to measure the asymmetries in the transmission of shocks to input prices and exchange rate onto the wholesale and retail gasoline price respectively. For this purpose, we use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220657
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From national monopoly to Multinational Corporation: how regulation shaped the road towards telecommunications internationalization
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Comín Comín, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
One of the consequences of major regulatory reform of the telecommunications sector from the end of the 1970s … former national telecommunications monopolies to expand internationally. From the 1990s, a number of these firms … explores how the regulatory framework within which telecommunications incumbents evolved over the long-term helped shape their …
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Bringing Citizens Back In: Renewing Public Service Regulation
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This essay concerns the ways in which public services – particularly household services such as communications, energy, water and transportation – have been regulated and deregulated, and analyses what consequences this has for users and citizens. Much of the deregulation of public services...
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Explaining Telecoms and Electricity Internationalization in the European Union: A Political Economy Perspective
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Revuelta, Julio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
-looking incumbents in telecommunications and electricity rapidly transformed themselves into some of the world’s leading Multinationals …
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Mobile telephony in the UK
Armstrong, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
This paper discusses aspects of recent policy towards mobile telephony in the U.K., including (i) the level of retail charges for calls from fixed to mobile networks, (ii) the level of call termination charges on mobile networks, and (iii) the level of connection subsidies offered by mobile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644936
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Is Market-Oriented Reform Producing a “Two-Track” Europe? Evidence from Electricity and Telecommunications
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
, electricity and telecommunications, in two large countries, Spain and the United Kingdom. In telecommunications, but to a much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277278
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The theory of access pricing and interconnection
Armstrong, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
This paper surveys the theory of access pricing and interconnection in telecommunicatons. One-way access pricing, competition bottlenects and two-way access pricing are discussed.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005668412
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Mobile call termination in the UK
Armstrong, Mark; Wright, Julian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
We discuss policy towards mobile call termination, illustrated by the 2002 Competition Commission enquiry into the UK mobile market. We present a model of the mobile market which includes both fixed-to-mobile and mobile-to-mobile call termination. In broad terms, the former service is likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789555