relation: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/49504/
title: Market Structure, Investment and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications
creator: Elliott, Jonathan
creator: Houngbonon, Georges Vivien
creator: Ivaldi, Marc
creator: Scott, Paul T.
subject: B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE
description: We develop a model of competition in prices and infrastructure among mobile network operators. Although consolidation increases market power, it can lead to more efficient data transmission due to economies of scale, which we derive from physical principles.  After estimating our model with French consumer and infrastructure data, equilibrium simulations reveal that while prices decrease with the number of firms, so do download speeds. Our framework also allows us to quantify the impact of spectrum allocation. The marginal social value of spectrum exceeds firms’ willingness to pay in our model as well as observed prices in spectrum auctions.
publisher: Elsevier
date: 2024
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: text
language: en
identifier: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/49504/1/wp_tse_1207.pdf
identifier:   Elliott, Jonathan, Houngbonon, Georges Vivien <https://www.idref.fr/191651265>, Ivaldi, Marc <https://www.idref.fr/058494375> and Scott, Paul T. <https://www.idref.fr/241586984>  (2024) Market Structure, Investment and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications.    European Journal of Political Economy.       (In Press)  
relation: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/129445
language: en