Spectrum auctions and competition in telecommunications /:

Leading experts in industrial organization and auction theory examine the recent European telecommunication license auction experience. In 2000 and 2001, several European countries carried out auctions for third generation technologies or universal mobile telephone services (UMTS) communication lice...

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Körperschaft: Universität München. Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung
Weitere Verfasser: Illing, Gerhard, Klüh, Ulrich
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2003.
Schriftenreihe:CESifo seminar series.
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Zusammenfassung:Leading experts in industrial organization and auction theory examine the recent European telecommunication license auction experience. In 2000 and 2001, several European countries carried out auctions for third generation technologies or universal mobile telephone services (UMTS) communication licenses. These "spectrum auctions" inaugurated yet another era in an industry that has already been transformed by a combination of staggering technological innovation and substantial regulatory change. Because of their spectacular but often puzzling outcomes, these spectrum auctions attracted enormous attention and invited new research on the interplay of auctions, industry dynamics, and regulation. This book collects essays on this topic by leading analysts of telecommunications and the European auction experience, all but one presented at a November 2001 CESifo conference; comments and responses are included as well, to preserve some of the controversy and atmosphere of give-and-take at the conference. The essays show the interconnectedness of two important and productive areas of modern economics, auction theory and industrial organization. Because spectrum auctions are embedded in a dynamic interaction of consumers, firms, legislation, and regulation, a multidimensional approach yields important insights. The first essays discuss strategies of stimulating new competition and the complex interplay of the political process, regulation, and competition. The later essays focus on specific spectrum auctions. Combining the empirical data these auctions provide with recent advances in microeconomic theory, they examine questions of auction design and efficiency and convincingly explain the enormous variation of revenues in different auctions
Beschreibung:"CES."
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 306 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0262090376
9780262090377
9780262276016
0262276011

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