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The French Mobile Telecom Market
Market Entry, Fighting Brands and Tacit Collusion: Evidence from the French Mobile Telecommunications Market
Published in American Economic Review (Forthcoming)
Authors:
Marc Bourreau: Professor of Economics at Telecom Paris, academic co-director of the CERRE, and a member of DGComp’s EAGCP
Yutec Sun: Assistant Professor of Economics, CREST-ENSAI
Franck Verboven: Professor of Economics at KU Leuven, Managing Editor of IJIO, Member of IO @ Leuven, Research Fellow at CEPR
Abstract:
We study a major new entry in the French mobile telecommunications market, followed by the introduction of fighting brands by the three incumbents. Using an empirical oligopoly model, we find that the incumbents’ fighting brand strategies are difficult to rationalize as unilateral best responses. Instead, their strategies are consistent with a breakdown of tacit semi-collusion: before entry, the incumbents could successfully coordinate on restricting product variety to avoid cannibalization; after entry, this outcome became harder to sustain because of increased business stealing incentives. Consumers gained considerably from the added variety and, to a lesser extent, from the incumbents’ price responses.
Link:
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20190540&&from=f
ICML 2021: Congratulations to our Researchers
Crest papers accepted at the international Conference on Machine Learning (ICML)
The Crest is pleased to present the work of its researchers and professors at the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) being held this week (July 18-24, 2021).
The ICML conference is world-renowned for presenting and publishing cutting-edge research on all aspects of machine learning, and is one of the fastest growing AI conferences in the world.
Congratulations to our Researchers Marco Cuturi, Anna Korba, Vianney Perchet, Flore Sentenac, Meyer Scetbon (ENSAE Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris) an Romaric Gaudel (ENSAI Rennes).