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Estimating Network Effects and Compatibility in Mobile Telecommunications
Grajek, Michał - 2007
effects and compatibility between networks. Network effects are measured by the dependence of consumer willingness to pay on … the installed base of subscribers. Compatibility is measured by the relative extent of cross- and own-network effects. I … network effects and - despite full interconnection of the mobile telephone networks - low compatibility. I also show that …
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Estimating network effects and compatibility in mobile telecommunications
Grajek, Michal - 2003
This paper provides empirical evidence on the extent of network effects and compatibility between networks in mobile … willingness to pay on the installed base of subscribers. Compatibility is measured by the relative extent of cross- and own … telephone networks, low compatibility. We show also that ignoring network effects in empirical models of emerging network …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278097
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Elección del consumidor y efectos de red locales en el mercado de telecomunicaciones móviles de Colombia
Correa, Alexander - In: Revista de Métodos Cuantitativos para la Economía y … 28 (2019), pp. 160-182
The objective of this article is to analyze the degree of network effects in the mobile telecommunications market in Colombia, and identify other determinants of consumer choice based on a survey of uses and habits carried out by the National Consulting Center for the Commission of Regulation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014494388
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Identification of network externalities in markets for non-durables
Grajek, Michal - 2002
the economic significance of the externalities and the compatibility of networks. The identifying assumption that drives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278053
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Satisfaction and protection of individual mobile telecommunications consumers: Need for regulation?
Gijón Tascón, Covadonga; Garín Muñoz, Teresa; … - 2012
Mobile telecommunications markets have been studied primarily from the perspectives of mobile telecom operators, market organization and regulators. However, there have been few studies from the perspective of the private consumer, which is the object of this research. This paper is part of an...
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Diffusion of ISO 9000 standards and international trade
Grajek, Michal - 2004
Investigating the link between ISO 9000 standards and bilateral exports, this paper contributes to the literature on standardization and international trade. A debate exists as to how ISO 9000 impacts trade. First, it has been argued that ISO 9000 is a “common language” that lowers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278147
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Mobile network interconnection and investments
Veith, Tobias - 2009
Abstract In markets with competing interconnected networks like mobile telecommunication markets investments affect the investor’s and also any competitors’ profits. In a theoretical model it is shown that cost-reducing investments reduce the investor’s termination rates and increase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299497
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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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Does one more or one less mobile opertor affect prices? A comprehensive ex-post evaluation of entries and mergers in European mobile telecommunication markets
Csorba, Gergely; Pápai, Zoltán - 2013
This paper estimates the impact of entries and mergers on the price of mobile voice services in a panel database of 27 European Member States between 2003 and 2010. Our difference-in-differences econometric methodology exploits the variance in different structural changes between countries to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327696
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Benefits of Regulation vs. Competition Where Inequality Is High: The Case of Mobile Telephony in South Africa
Hawthorne, Ryan; Grzybowski, Lukasz - 2019
We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly unequal country, South Africa. Using six waves of a consumer survey of over 134,000 individuals between 2009-2014, we estimate a discrete-choice model allowing for...
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