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Elliott, Jonathan
, Houngbonon, Georges Vivien, Ivaldi, Marc and Scott, Paul
(2023)
Market structure, investment and technical efficiencies in mobile telecommunications.
TSE Working Paper, n. 21-1207, Toulouse.
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Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
|---|---|
| Language: | English |
| Date: | 25 April 2023 |
| Place of Publication: | Toulouse. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Market structure, scale efficiency,, antitrust policy, infrastructure, endogenous, quality, queuing, mobile telecommunications |
| JEL Classification: | D21 - Firm Behavior L13 - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets L40 - General |
| Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
| Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
| Institution: | Université Toulouse 1 Capitole |
| Site: | UT1 |
| Date Deposited: | 06 May 2021 15:40 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jan 2025 13:24 |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:125551 |
| URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/43492 |
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