Estimating scale economies of the wireless telecommunications industry using EVA data

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 29-40

  Nam, Changi ^a   Kwon, Youngsun ^a   Kim, Seongcheol ^b   Lee, Hyeongjik ^c  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Korea University   (South Korea)

^c Korea Naval Academy   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Asymmetric regulation; Economic value added (EVA); Scale economy estimation; Telecommunications

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; TELECOMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; VALUE ENGINEERING; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ASYMMETRIC REGULATION; AVERAGE COSTS; DATA COLLECTIONS; ECONOMIC VALUE-ADDED (EVA); ECONOMIES-OF-SCALE; ESTIMATION METHODS; LONG-RUN AVERAGE COSTS; MOBILE NETWORK OPERATORS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS; SCALE ECONOMY ESTIMATION; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRIES; TOTAL COSTS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 59849127662     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2008.10.005     Document Type: Article

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