Who thinks about the competition? Managerial ability and strategic entry in US local telephone markets

A Goldfarb, M Xiao - American Economic Review, 2011 - aeaweb.org
We examine US local telephone markets shortly after the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
The data suggest that more experienced, better-educated managers tend to enter markets …

Demand for telecommunication services in developing countries

C Garbacz, HG Thompson Jr - Telecommunications policy, 2007 - Elsevier
Living standards and economic growth in developing countries are invariably linked to the
availability and use of telecom services. Effective policy decisions require the best estimates …

Household demand for broadband Internet in 2010

GL Rosston, SJ Savage, DM Waldman - The BE Journal of Economic …, 2010 - degruyter.com
This paper uses data from a nationwide survey administered during late 2009 and early
2010 to estimate a random utility model of household preferences for broadband Internet …

Mapping the field: Retrospective of the federal universal service programs

L Holt, M Galligan - Telecommunications Policy, 2013 - Elsevier
Abstract The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (1996 Act) established the framework for four
federal universal service programs: the High-Cost program, the Low-Income program, the …

Competition and subsidies in the deregulated US local telephone industry

Y Fan, M Xiao - the RAND Journal of Economics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The 1996 Telecommunications Act opened the monopolistic US local telephone industry to
new entrants. However, substantial entry costs have prevented some markets from …

Mobile and fixed substitution for telephone service in China

MR Ward, S Zheng - Telecommunications Policy, 2012 - Elsevier
A panel of province by year data for China from 1998 to 2007 is used to estimate own-and
cross-price elasticities for fixed and mobile telephone service. Identification is achieved …

Universal telecommunication service: A world perspective

C Garbacz, HG Thompson Jr - Information Economics and Policy, 2005 - Elsevier
Worldwide telecommunications demand is estimated in models for business and residential
mainline telephone, and for mobile telephone service using separate models for developed …

The effect of prices on fixed and mobile telephone penetration: Using price subsidies as natural experiments

MR Ward, GA Woroch - Information economics and policy, 2010 - Elsevier
A natural experiment, unintentionally conducted by the price subsidy program Lifeline
Assistance, underpins our innovative strategy to estimate consumer demand for …

Estimating the impact of low-income universal service programs

DA Ackerberg, DR DeRemer, MH Riordan… - International journal of …, 2014 - Elsevier
This policy study uses US Census microdata to evaluate how subsidies for universal
telephone service vary in their impact across low-income racial groups, gender, age, and …

Behind the scenes of the telecommunications miracle: An empirical analysis of the Indian market

S Biancini - Telecommunications Policy, 2011 - Elsevier
The paper analyzes the demand and supply characteristics of the Indian
telecommunications market, with the aim of contributing to the debate on the effectiveness of …