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Telephone Demand over the Atlantic: Evidence from Country-Pair Data

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Acton, Jan Paul
Vogelsang, Ingo

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International calls include consumption and financial externalities. Theoretical analysis predicts that the volume of outbound and inbound calls is a function of originating-country price ("own-price") and terminating-country price ("cross-price"). Analysis of annual data for minutes of calling between the U.S. and seventeen West European countries from 1979 to 1986 reveals negative own-price effects in both directions, with inbound calls more elastic. Cross-price effects are generally not statistically significant. The findings are consistent with arbitrage and call-externality motivation that cancel each other. Level of GDP, number of telephones, and telex prices are statistically significant. Copyright 1992 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Volume (Year): 40 (1992)
Issue (Month): 3 (September)
Pages: 305-23
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  1. Gustavo, Manfrim & Sergio, Da Silva, 2006. "Estimating demand elasticities of fixed telephony in Brazil," MPRA Paper 1978, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
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  2. James Alleman & Gary Madden & Scott Savage, 2003. "Dominant carrier market power in US international telephone markets," Applied Economics, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 35(6), pages 665-673, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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