Competition in Turkish mobile telecommunications markets: Price elasticities and network substitution

Telecommunications Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 202-210

  Karacuka, Mehmet ^a   Haucap, Justus ^b   Heimeshoff, Ulrich ^b  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic panel data analysis; Fixed mobile substitution; Mobile telecommunications; Price elasticity

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ELASTICITIES; DYNAMIC PANEL DATA; ESTIMATE DYNAMICS; FIXED-MOBILE SUBSTITUTION; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE TRAFFIC; PRICE ELASTICITY; TURKISHS;

COMMERCE; COSTS; DATA HANDLING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

ELASTICITY;

EID: 79551607201     PISSN: 03085961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2010.12.016     Document Type: Article

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