Spectrum Licensing and Flexible Beauty Contest Designs
McMillan’s (1995) ‘flexibility’ proposition suggests a testable hypothesis about beauty contests spectrum assignments. Such flexibility purportedly allows regulators to pursue social welfare (network deployment) goals. A separate argument is that more competitive beauty contests enhance the probabil...
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| author | Madden, Gary Bohlin, Erik Tran, Thien |
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| description | McMillan’s (1995) ‘flexibility’ proposition suggests a testable hypothesis about beauty contests spectrum assignments. Such flexibility purportedly allows regulators to pursue social welfare (network deployment) goals. A separate argument is that more competitive beauty contests enhance the probability of assignment. The study concludes that regulators do indeed focus on societal (network deployment) welfare goals. Initially, consideration is given in the immediate term where licenses are awarded based on operator aftermarket commitments. Subsequently, spectrum package attributes and financial performance obligations, specified in the tender documents, come into play to support the networks spread more widely through the population in a timely manner. Finally, the econometric results suggest that more competitive beauty contests enhance the probability of assignment. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-251202017-09-13T15:20:56Z Spectrum Licensing and Flexible Beauty Contest Designs Madden, Gary Bohlin, Erik Tran, Thien 3G spectrum assignment beauty contests mobile telephone markets McMillan’s (1995) ‘flexibility’ proposition suggests a testable hypothesis about beauty contests spectrum assignments. Such flexibility purportedly allows regulators to pursue social welfare (network deployment) goals. A separate argument is that more competitive beauty contests enhance the probability of assignment. The study concludes that regulators do indeed focus on societal (network deployment) welfare goals. Initially, consideration is given in the immediate term where licenses are awarded based on operator aftermarket commitments. Subsequently, spectrum package attributes and financial performance obligations, specified in the tender documents, come into play to support the networks spread more widely through the population in a timely manner. Finally, the econometric results suggest that more competitive beauty contests enhance the probability of assignment. 2013 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25120 10.1111/apce.12016 Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. restricted |
| spellingShingle | 3G spectrum assignment beauty contests mobile telephone markets Madden, Gary Bohlin, Erik Tran, Thien Spectrum Licensing and Flexible Beauty Contest Designs |
| title | Spectrum Licensing and Flexible Beauty Contest Designs |
| title_full | Spectrum Licensing and Flexible Beauty Contest Designs |
| title_fullStr | Spectrum Licensing and Flexible Beauty Contest Designs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spectrum Licensing and Flexible Beauty Contest Designs |
| title_short | Spectrum Licensing and Flexible Beauty Contest Designs |
| title_sort | spectrum licensing and flexible beauty contest designs |
| topic | 3G spectrum assignment beauty contests mobile telephone markets |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/25120 |