We analyze demand for prepaid cellular voice and short message service (SMS) in South Africa by means of a demand … highly, they are as much as twice more elastic than off-peak communications. In relative terms, demand for communications … during peak hours is more elastic for urban than for rural consumers, while the reverse can be said about demand for off …

This paper analyses price elasticities in the Austrian market for mobile telecommunications services using data on firm …-run and long-run demand elasticities for business customers and for private consumers with both postpaid contracts and prepaid … cards. We find that business customers have a higher elasticity of demand than private consumers, where postpaid customers …

For three decades the government of South Africa has sought to make telecommunications universally available and …

-enabled Internet services, whose European takeup was slower than expected. To determine why, we build a structural model of demand for …

We analyze demand for prepaid cellular voice and short message service (SMS) in South Africa by means of a demand … highly, they are as much as twice more elastic than off-peak communications. In relative terms, demand for communications … during peak hours is more elastic for urban than for rural consumers, while the reverse can be said about demand for off …

We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly …. Next, we use a demand and supply equilibrium framework to simulate prices and the distribution of welfare without entry and …

individual claims data from a large Swiss insurance company to estimate the response in health care demand to the discrete price … type framework based on daily data to estimate the change in health care demand right before and right after the turn of … the year. We find that for individuals with high deductibles health care demand drops by 27%, which translates into an …