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Hidalgo, Julian; Oviedo, Juan D. - 2014

This paper develops a structural model which allows estimating the impact of regulatory decisions looking for the setting of download-speed standards on market structure and performance. We characterize a setting under which quality standards improve both service quality and availability. As to...

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Coexistence of copper and fiber unbundling : access charges and investment incentives

Tselekounis, Markos; Orfanou, Georgia; Varoutas, Dimitris - 2014

We study the impact of the access charges of copper and fiber unbundling on an incumbent's incentives to invest in fiber access networks. Once the fiber deployment is in place, the incumbent and the entrant compete for consumers in both copper and fiber markets. We show that when the regulator...

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The impact of tariff diversity on broadband diffusion : an empirical analysis

Haucap, Justus; Heimeshoff, Ulrich; Lange, Mirjam - 2014

This paper provides an empirical analysis how tariff diversity affects broadband uptake, utilizing a new data set with 1497 fixed-line and 2158 mobile broadband tariffs from 91 countries across the globe. An instrumental variable approach is applied to estimate the demand for fixed broadband...

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Estimating demand for quadruple-play tariffs : the impact on consumer surplus

Grzybowski, Lukasz; Liang, Julienne - 2014

This paper estimates demand for quadruple play mobile tariffs using a database of subscribers to a single mobile operator from a single town in a European country which has full coverage with both ADSL and FTTH broadband technologies. Based on the demand estimation we find that consumer...

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Competition for access provision : infrastructure upgrades with spillovers

Matsushima, Noriaki; Mizuno, Keizo - 2014

We examine a game of competition with access provision in which service quality is endogenously determined through infrastructure upgrades with spillovers. There are two types of equilibria in the free competition regime. In particular, voluntary access provision with an access charge higher...

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The effect of on-net, off-net differentiation and heterogeneous consumers on network size in mobile telecommunications : an agent-based approach ; conference paper

Muck, Johannes - 2013 - Preliminary version, June 2012

I explore the effects of on-net / off-net differentiation on network sizes in mobile telecommunications when both …

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Deregulating fixed voice services? : empirical evidence from the European Union

Šaric, Amela; Lange, Mirjam - 2014

This paper deals with the relationship between the traditional fixed-line, mobile and Voice over IP telephony in the EU.We estimate the supply and demand for fixed-line telephony using data on 25 EU member states for the 2006:Q2 - 2011:Q4 period. Employing instrumental variable approach, we...

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Mobile telecommunications infrastructure and economic growth : evidence from China

Ward, Michael R.; Zheng, Shilin - 2014

We contribute to the role of telecommunications infrastructure on economic growth in three ways. We separately examine … of development. In addition, we develop a method designed to address endogeneity of telecommunications with respect to …

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The impact of tariff diversity on broadband diffusion : an empirical analysis

Haucap, Justus (contributor); Heimeshoff, Ulrich (contributor) - International Telecommunications Society - 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...

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Opportunity cost for the digital dividend bandwidth : application and comparison with LTE auctions outcomes

Garelli, Nicola (contributor) - International Telecommunications Society - 2014

Radio spectrum represents a scarce resource assigned to operators by national regulatory authorities through auctions … asymmetric information, clearly identify the expected value of the spectrum, to be used to set auction bases, prices in beauty … television transmission opened the space for reallocating parts of the spectrum, to increase its efficiency. The paper aims at …

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