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Quantifying the Benefits of Entry into Local Phone Service

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Nicholas Economides () (Stern School of Business, NYU)
V. Brian Viard () (Graduate School of Business, Stanford University)
Katja Seim () (University of Pennsylvania)

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Abstract

Local telecommunications competition was an important goal of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. We evaluate the consumer welfare effects of entry into residential local telephone service in New York State using household-level data from September 1999 to March 2003. We address the prevalence of nonlinear tariffs by developing a discrete/continuous demand model that allows for service bundling and unobservable provider quality. We find that the average subscriber to the entrants' services gains a monthly equivalent of $2.33, or 6.2% of her bill, in welfare from competition. These gains accrue primarily from firm differentiation and new plan introductions rather than from price effects.

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Paper provided by NET Institute in its series Working Papers with number 07-48.

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Length: 49 pages
Date of creation: Dec 2007
Date of revision: Dec 2007
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Keywords: Entry; Nonlinear Pricing; Telecommunications; Discrete/Continuous Demand;

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D43 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure and Pricing - - - Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
K23 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms
L13 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets
L96 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Telecommunications

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