Subscription Choices and Switching Costs in Mobile Telephony
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NET Institute*
In this article, we estimate the price elasticities of demand for subscription and consumer switching costs for mobile telephony. We use a panel of Portuguese consumer level data to estimate a series of multinomial and mixed logit models. The demand for subscription is elastic. Switching costs are large. We use the structural model to perform several policy exercises. Switching costs and brand ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Review of Industrial Organization
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0889-938X,1573-7160
DOI: 10.1007/s11151-011-9275-y