Asymmetric competition and collection rates differentials: determinants of prices in international telephone service markets

  • Authors:

  • Alberto Nucciarelli;Massimo Gastaldi;Nathan Ghiron Levialdi

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;Department of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy;Department of Firm Engineering, University of Rome `Tor Vergata', Rome, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Netnomics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The paper investigates determinants of pricing in international telephone service markets. The analysis--focused on 24 worldwide national markets--shows the impact of several telecommunications-specific and macroeconomic variables on collection rate differentials and traffic imbalance between countries. An econometric model is aimed at performing quantitative analysis and providing support to future telecommunications policies.