The proposed merger of AT&T and T-Mobile: Are there unexhausted scale economies in U.S. mobile telephony?
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- Russell Pittman, 2012. "The Proposed Merger of AT&T and T-Mobile: Are There Unexhausted Scale Economies in U.S. Mobile Telephony?," EAG Discussions Papers 201202, Department of Justice, Antitrust Division.
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Keywords
merger efficiencies; economies of scale; economies of density; mobile telephony; antitrust; stochastic frontier analysis;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L96 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Telecommunications
- K23 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Regulated Industries and Administrative Law
- K21 - Law and Economics - - Regulation and Business Law - - - Antitrust Law
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- L40 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - General
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-COM-2012-06-05 (Industrial Competition)
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