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Competition in the Turkish mobile telecommunications market: Price elasticities and network substitution
Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich; Karaçuka, Mehmet - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2010
This paper estimates demand elasticities for the Turkish mobile telecommunication market. In contrast to most other studies, firm level data is used to estimate dynamic panel data models including instrumental variable techniques. Both short- and long-run elasticities are calculated, yielding a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008784595
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Competition in the Turkish mobile telecommunications market: Price elasticities and network substitution
Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich; Karaçuka, Mehmet - 2010
This paper estimates demand elasticities for the Turkish mobile telecommunication market. In contrast to most other studies, firm level data is used to estimate dynamic panel data models including instrumental variable techniques. Both short- and long-run elasticities are calculated, yielding a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303799
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Consumer choice and local network effects in mobile telecommunications in Turkey
Karaçuka, Mehmet; Çatik, A. Nazif; Haucap, Justus - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2012
Turkish consumer survey data is used to analyze the main factors that affect consumers' choice of different mobile telecommunications networks. The analysis shows that consumers' choice is significantly affected by the choices of other consumers with whom the consumer is more likely to interact....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983925
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Consumer choice and local network effects in mobile telecommunications in Turkey
Karacuka, Mehmet; Çatık, A. Nazif; Haucap, Justus - In: Telecommunications Policy 37 (2013) 4, pp. 334-344
The aim of this paper is to analyze the extent of network effects in mobile telecommunications in Turkey, and to identify other determinants of consumer choice based on consumer survey data. This study shows that there are regional disparities in the adoption of network services in Turkey, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011056966
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Consumer choice and local network effects in mobile telecommunications in Turkey
Karaçuka, Mehmet; Çatik, A. Nazif; Haucap, Justus - 2012
Turkish consumer survey data is used to analyze the main factors that affect consumers' choice of different mobile telecommunications networks. The analysis shows that consumers' choice is significantly affected by the choices of other consumers with whom the consumer is more likely to interact....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010310634
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Endogenous Switching Costs and Exclusive Systems Applications
Haucap, Justus - In: Review of Network Economics 2 (2003) 1, pp. 29-35
product compatibility. In that paper, Garcia Mariñoso concludes that producers of so-called product systems (which consist of … hardware or platforms plus applications) can have strong incentives to achieve compatibility so that applications can be used … with different hardware/platforms. This is because compatibility reduces consumer switching costs which in turn allows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005432465
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Consumer behavior towards on-net/off-net price differentiation
Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2011
This paper explores how consumers react towards price differentiation between on-net and off-net calls in mobile telecommunications - a pricing policy that is common in many mobile telecommunications markets. Based on a survey of 1044 students we demonstrate that some consumers may suffer from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003594
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Wettbewerb im deutschen Mobilfunkmarkt
Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich; Stühmeier, Torben - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2010
This paper studies competition in the German market for mobile telecommunications, motivated by recent suggestions that T-Mobile and Vodafone possess a position of collective dominance. Allegedly, their position of joint dominance is secured through a combination of first-mover advantages and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694106
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The impact of tariff diversity on broadband diffusion: An empirical analysis
Haucap, Justus; Heimesho, Ulrich; Lange, Mirjam R. J. - International Telecommunications Society (ITS) - 2014
This paper provides an empirical analysis how tariff diversity aspects fixed-line broad-band uptake, utilizing a new data set with 1497 fixed-line and 2158 mobile broad-band tariffs from 91 countries across the globe. An instrumental variable approach is applied to estimate demand, controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011161139
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How regulation affects network and service quality in related markets
Haucap, Justus; Klein, Gordon J. - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 2, pp. 521-524
We analyze how network regulation affects investment into network infrastructure and complementary services. While regulation negatively affects investment incentives in the regulated network market, the effects of network regulation on investment in complementary services can be either negative...
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