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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...
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transfer market shares or money. This paper develops a model of repeated Bertrand competition in a homogeneous market that … unregulated firm. The model assumes subscriber-based competition, the presence of switching costs, and asymmetry in the initial … of competition, and where the incumbent reciprocates by transferring money or market shares to the entrant …
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We document entry and capacity expansion in US long-distance fiber-optic networks before and during the "telecom boom." We disentangle the many swaps and leases between networks in order to measure owned route miles versus route miles shared with other carriers. Entry appears much more moderate...
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area LATA) to another. Although the Telecommunications Act of 1996 superseded the MFJ, it retained the BOCs' interLATA …
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According to static models of industrial organization, a rise in competition decreases prices. In this paper, I test … whether this conclusion can be reversed in the mobile telecommunications markets where dynamic efficiency effects might be … significant. The empirical test relies on the change in the intensity of competition introduced by the entry of the fourth mobile …
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