Entry, costs reduction, and competition in the Portuguese mobile telephony industry

International Journal of Industrial Organization

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 461-481

  Gagnepain, Philippe ^a,b   Pereira, Pedro ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b CEPR   (United Kingdom)

^c Autoridade da Concorrencia   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Competition; Efficiency; Empirical analysis; Entry; Mobile telephony

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; COSTS; EFFICIENCY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY;

COST EQUATIONS; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MOBILE TELEPHONY;

INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

EID: 33947321306     PISSN: 01677187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijindorg.2006.05.007     Document Type: Article

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