Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/41414 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
DICE Ordnungspolitische Perspektiven No. 04
Publisher: 
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf
Abstract: 
This paper studies competition in the German market for mobile telecommunications, motivated by recent suggestions that T-Mobile and Vodafone possess a position of collective dominance. Allegedly, their position of joint dominance is secured through a combination of first-mover advantages and discrimination between on-net and off-net prices. While our qualitative analysis remains inconclusive, as some factors tend to favour collusion while others make collusion more difficult to sustain, our empirical analysis suggests that T-Mobile and Vodafone cannot act independently of their smaller rivals, but that they are disciplined by their smaller competitors' offerings.
Subjects: 
Wettbewerb
Mobilfunk
Telekommunikation
kollektive Marktbeherrschung
JEL: 
L13
L41
L96
ISBN: 
9783863046040
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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