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Welfare Cost of Mobile Spectrum (Mis)allocation
Liang, Julienne; Guiffard, Jean-Baptiste; Ivaldi, Marc; … - 2022
mobile network quality for consumers by combining coverage data with spectrum data. Using this estimated demand model, we …
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A Welfare Analysis of Spectrum Allocation Policies
Hazlett, Thomas W.; Munoz, Roberto E. - 2013
Economic analysis of spectrum allocation policies focuses on competitive bidding for wireless licenses. Auctions generating high bids, as in Germany and the UK, are identified as successful, while those producing lower receipts, as in Switzerland and the Netherlands, are deemed fiascoes. Yet,...
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The welfare effects of mobile internet access : evidence from Roam-Like-At-Home
Quinn, Martin; Matos, Miguel Godinho de; Peukert, Christian - 2022
We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-Like-At-Home regulation, which drastically re-duced the price of accessing the mobile internet for EU residents when traveling abroad in the European Economic Area. Estimates from individual-level usage data suggest that consumer surplus increased by...
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New competition in telecommunications markets : regulatory pricing principles
Bijl, Paul de; Peitz, Martin - 2002
Launching and stimulating competition in telecommunications markets is an important policy goal. It contains two elements: to encourage entry and to make competition effective such that consumers benefit. The first one requires that entrants can make profits after investing in infrastructure so...
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Welfare analysis of equilibria with and without early termination fees in the US wireless industry
Cullen, Joseph; Schutz, Nicolas; Shcherbakov, Oleksandr - 2020 - Last updated: March 23, 2020
We study the social welfare implications of early termination fees in the US wireless industry. It is hypothesized that the elimination of long-term contracts at the end of 2015 was a transition from one market equilibrium to another. We use a theoretical model to illustrate that the endogenous...
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Cooperation Among Competitors : Network Sharing Can Increase Consumer Welfare
Maier-Rigaud, Frank P. - 2020
We investigate the effects of network sharing agreements between mobile network operators on prices and consumer … welfare, taking also quality effects into account. Network sharing agreements allow multiple network operators to use the same … of the existing network sharing between two operators in the Czech Republic. We first use a difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012837543
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Demand for Telephone Services and the Welfare Effect of Smartphones
Rennhoff, Adam D. - 2015
consumer telephone service choices, along with geographic data on cellular network infrastructure and software applications, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035386
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Impacts of Sponsored Data on Infrastructure Investments and Welfare
Kies, Martin - 2017
high network costs. However, given a sufficiently high profitability of the content provider, the internet service provider …. This not only decreases effective network capacity but might also lead to a decrease in net welfare …
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The Consumer Welfare Cost of Cable 'Build-Out' Rules
Ford, George S.; Koutsky, Thomas; Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2005
in which new network construction would be profitable. We show that consumer welfare is likely to be higher with "free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063099
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Cost and Benefits from Infrastructure Competition. Estimating Welfare Effects from Broadband Access Competition
Höffler, Felix - 2015
Competition between parallel infrastructures incorporates opposing welfare effects. The gain from reduced deadweight loss might be outweighed by the inefficient duplication of an existing infrastructure. Using data from broadband internet access for Western Europe 2000-2004, this paper...
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