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| Title: | | Coexistence of service- and facility-based competition: The relevance of access prices for "make-or-buy"-decisions  |
| Authors: | | Bender, Christian M. Götz, Georg |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Joint discussion paper series in economics 07-2011 |
| Abstract: | | This paper models competition between two firms, which provide broadband Internet access in regional markets with different population densities. The firms, an incumbent and an entrant, differ in two ways. First, consumers bear costs when switching to the entrant. Second, the entrant faces a make-or-buy decision in each region and can choose between service-based and facility-based entry. The usual trade-off between static and dynamic efficiency does not apply in the sense that higher access fees might yield both, lower retail prices and higher total coverage. This holds despite a strategic effect in the entrant's investment decision. While investment lowers marginal costs in regions with facility-based entry, it intensifies competition in all regions. We show that the cost-reducing potential of investments dominates the strategic effect: Higher access fees increase facility-based competition, decrease retail prices and increase total demand. |
| Subjects: | | broadband access markets facility- and service-based entry investments economies of density switching costs |
| JEL: | | D43 L13 L51 L96 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | MAGKS Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics, Universität Marburg
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