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The interplay of infrastructure supply and demand is of central interest in line with Web 2.0. As the role of customers …, simultaneously, customers' demand for high-quality infrastructure. On the other hand, infrastructure providers carry investment risks … competition increases the demand for infrastructure quality and, as a consequence, increases the supply of infrastructure). While …
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accompanied by a strong growth in demand in the telecommunications sector. This demand side effect is absent in electricity … the successful introduction of competition in the telecommunications sector. The main reason behind this success is that … telecommunications is in line with micro-economic theory, which predicts an increase in efficiency and lower prices when markets are …
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This paper analyzes empirically whether and if so to what extent later entrants in the European mobile telephony industry have a disadvantage vis-à-vis incumbents and early mover entrants. To analyze this question a dynamic model of market share development and a series of static models are...
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Network shares and retail prices are not symmetric in the telecommunications market with multiple bottlenecks which …
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I develop a structural demand model for mobile telephone service, which facilitates the identification of network … ignoring network effects leads to an overestimation of elasticity of demand. …
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The positive correlation between the absolute price elasticity of telecommunications demand and the distance of the ….Next we look for various explanations of the distance dependence. We analyse the roles of the functional form of demand … quite basic utility maximization model of information demand also leads to distance dependent telecommunicationsdemand …
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This paper analyses price structures in the liberalized German market for long-distance telecommunications services … probability of cut-throat competition, and the necessary presence of a demand-compatible peak-load structure. With respect to the …
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A general theoretical and empirical framework is developed for assessing the potential of a vertically integrated firm to foreclose downstream competitors. Using this framework a policymaker may also evaluate the empirical welfare effects from a vertically integrated firm raising rivals' costs....
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carrier identification affect these findings. -- number portability ; switching costs ; telecommunications ; network …
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