Asymmetric Equilibria and Non-Cooperative Access Pricing in Telecommunications

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Asymmetric Equilibria and Non-Cooperative Access Pricing in Telecommunications

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Behringer, Stefan

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Stefan Behringer

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This paper looks at competition in the Telecommunications industry with non-linear tariffs and network based price discrimination. Allowing for asymmetric networks and non-cooperatively chosen access prices simultaneously allows to explicitly derive non-reciprocal equilibrium access price choices that are above the efficient level.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 11795.

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- Stefan Behringer, 2006. "Asymmetric Equilibria and Non-cooperative Access Pricing in Telecommunications," JEPS Working Papers 06-005, JEPS.

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L96 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Telecommunications
L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation
L41 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Monopolization; Horizontal Anticompetitive Practices
K21 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Antitrust Law
D40 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure and Pricing - - - General

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-ALL-2008-12-01 (All new papers)
NEP-COM-2008-12-01 (Industrial Competition)
NEP-ICT-2008-12-01 (Information & Communication Technologies)
NEP-LAW-2008-12-01 (Law & Economics)
NEP-MIC-2008-12-01 (Microeconomics)
NEP-NET-2008-12-01 (Network Economics)
NEP-REG-2008-12-01 (Regulation)

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Jean-Jacques Laffont & Patrick Rey & Jean Tirole, 1998. "Network Competition: I. Overview and Nondiscriminatory Pricing," RAND Journal of Economics, The RAND Corporation, vol. 29(1), pages 1-37, Spring. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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- Hoernig, Steffen, 2006. "On-Net and Off-Net Pricing on Asymmetric Telecommunications Networks," CEPR Discussion Papers 5588, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
Stefan Behringer, 2005. "Equilibrium non-reciprocal Access Pricing in the Telecommunication Industry," JEPS Working Papers 05-002, JEPS.
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