Competition and Mobile Communications in Former Socialist Countries
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چکیده
I estimate a logistic model of mobile communications diffusion to examine the impact of competition on cellular penetration in former socialist countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Not surprisingly, I find that the introduction of competition led to a higher speed of adoption of mobile technology. Perhaps more surprisingly, sequential competition had a greater impact than simultaneous competition. Larger and richer countries introduced competition earlier, and tended to award more than one digital mobile license initially. Failure to account for this selectivity leads to upward biased estimates of the effect of competition on cellular penetration. JEL classification: L1; L96; O3; P2
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