Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/43668 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
DICE Discussion Paper No. 12
Publisher: 
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf
Abstract: 
This paper estimates demand elasticities for the Turkish mobile telecommunication market. In contrast to most other studies, firm level data is used to estimate dynamic panel data models including instrumental variable techniques. Both short- and long-run elasticities are calculated, yielding a long-run price elasticity of -0.72 for the post-paid market and of -0.33 for the pre-paid market. The short-run price elasticity is estimated to be -0.36 for the post-paid market and -0.20 for the pre-paid market. In addition, evidence of fixed to mobile traffic substitution is provided for consumers that use pre-paid cards.
Subjects: 
mobile telecommunications
price elasticity
network substitution
dynamic panel data analysis
JEL: 
C23
L13
L96
ISBN: 
978-3-86304-011-6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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