Spectrum Licensing, Policy Instruments and Market Entry
Competition policy attempts to address the potential for market failure by encouraging competition in service markets. Often, in wireless communication service markets, national regulatory authorities seek to encourage entry via the spectrum assignment process. Instruments used include the assignmen...
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Springer Science + Business Media B.V., Formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers B.V.
2014
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| author | Madden, Gary Bohlin, E. Tran, Thien Morey, A. |
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| description | Competition policy attempts to address the potential for market failure by encouraging competition in service markets. Often, in wireless communication service markets, national regulatory authorities seek to encourage entry via the spectrum assignment process. Instruments used include the assignment mode (auction or beauty contest), setting aside licenses and providing bidding (price and quantity) credits for potential entrants and making more licenses (spectrum blocks) available than there are incumbent firms (excess licenses). The empirical analysis assesses the effectiveness of these policy instruments on encouraging entry. The econometric results show that the probability of entry is enhanced by using auction assignments and excess licenses. Furthermore, quantity, but not price, concessions encourage entry. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-226752018-03-29T09:06:47Z Spectrum Licensing, Policy Instruments and Market Entry Madden, Gary Bohlin, E. Tran, Thien Morey, A. D82 L51 Spectrum licensing Market entry L96 Policy instruments Competition policy attempts to address the potential for market failure by encouraging competition in service markets. Often, in wireless communication service markets, national regulatory authorities seek to encourage entry via the spectrum assignment process. Instruments used include the assignment mode (auction or beauty contest), setting aside licenses and providing bidding (price and quantity) credits for potential entrants and making more licenses (spectrum blocks) available than there are incumbent firms (excess licenses). The empirical analysis assesses the effectiveness of these policy instruments on encouraging entry. The econometric results show that the probability of entry is enhanced by using auction assignments and excess licenses. Furthermore, quantity, but not price, concessions encourage entry. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22675 10.1007/s11151-013-9405-9 Springer Science + Business Media B.V., Formerly Kluwer Academic Publishers B.V. restricted |
| spellingShingle | D82 L51 Spectrum licensing Market entry L96 Policy instruments Madden, Gary Bohlin, E. Tran, Thien Morey, A. Spectrum Licensing, Policy Instruments and Market Entry |
| title | Spectrum Licensing, Policy Instruments and Market Entry |
| title_full | Spectrum Licensing, Policy Instruments and Market Entry |
| title_fullStr | Spectrum Licensing, Policy Instruments and Market Entry |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spectrum Licensing, Policy Instruments and Market Entry |
| title_short | Spectrum Licensing, Policy Instruments and Market Entry |
| title_sort | spectrum licensing, policy instruments and market entry |
| topic | D82 L51 Spectrum licensing Market entry L96 Policy instruments |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22675 |