eprintid: 49504
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creators_name: Elliott, Jonathan
creators_name: Houngbonon, Georges Vivien
creators_name: Ivaldi, Marc
creators_name: Scott, Paul T.
creators_idrefppn: 191651265
creators_idrefppn: 058494375
creators_idrefppn: 241586984
creators_affiliation: New-York University
creators_affiliation: World Bank
creators_affiliation: New-York University
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title: Market Structure, Investment and Technical Efficiencies in Mobile Telecommunications
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abstract: 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.
date: 2024
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier
official_url: http://tse-fr.eu/pub/129445
faculty: tse
divisions: tse
keywords: Market structure
keywords: scale efficiency,
keywords: antitrust policy
keywords: infrastructure
keywords: endogenous
keywords: quality
keywords: queuing, mobile telecommunications
language: en
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subjectsJEL: JEL_L13
subjectsJEL: JEL_L40
view_date_year: 2024
full_text_status: public
publication: European Journal of Political Economy
place_of_pub: Amsterdam
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0176-2680
oai_identifier: oai:tse-fr.eu:129445
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citation:   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)  
document_url: https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/49504/1/wp_tse_1207.pdf