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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP16111 |
DP16111 Market Structure, Investment and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications | |
Jonathan Elliott; Georges V. Houngbonon; Marc Ivaldi; Paul Scott | |
发表日期 | 2021-05-05 |
出版年 | 2021 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We develop a model of competition in prices and infrastructural investment among mobile network providers. Market shares and service quality (download speed) are simultaneously determined, for demand affects the network load just as delivered quality affects consumer demand. While consolidation typically has adverse impacts on consumer surplus, economies of scale (which we derive from physical principles) push in the other direction, and we find that consumer surplus is maximized at a moderate number of firms, and that the optimal number of firms is higher for lower income consumers. Our modeling framework allows us to quantify the marginal social value of allocating more spectrum to mobile telecommunications, finding it is roughly five times an individual firm’s willingness to pay for a marginal unit of spectrum. |
主题 | Industrial Organization |
关键词 | Mobile telecommunications Market structure Infrastructure Scale efficiency Antitrust policy Endogenous quality Queuing |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp16111-3 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/545088 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Jonathan Elliott,Georges V. Houngbonon,Marc Ivaldi,et al. DP16111 Market Structure, Investment and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications. 2021. |
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