An Oligopoly Model for Analyzing and Evaluating (Re)-Assignments of Spectrum Licenses
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Loertscher, S; Marx, LM
Published in: Review of Industrial Organization
September 27, 2014
The Communications Act requires the Federal Communications Commission to assess whether proposed spectrum license transactions serve the public interest, convenience, and necessity. We review the FCC’s implementation of this component of the Act. We provide a tractable economic model of competition among wireless service providers in which spectrum licenses are a cost-reducing input. This model allows us to evaluate the effects of (re-)assigning spectrum licenses on economic outcomes and to define operational measures of “warehousing” licenses. Calibrating the model, we find little evidence of warehousing and that the approved Verizon-T-Mobile-SpectrumCo transaction increased social surplus.
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Review of Industrial Organization
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1573-7160
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0889-938X
Publication Date
September 27, 2014
Volume
45
Issue
3
Start / End Page
245 / 273
Related Subject Headings
- Economics
- 3801 Applied economics
- 1402 Applied Economics
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Loertscher, S., & Marx, L. M. (2014). An Oligopoly Model for Analyzing and Evaluating (Re)-Assignments of Spectrum Licenses. Review of Industrial Organization, 45(3), 245–273. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-014-9427-y
Loertscher, S., and L. M. Marx. “An Oligopoly Model for Analyzing and Evaluating (Re)-Assignments of Spectrum Licenses.” Review of Industrial Organization 45, no. 3 (September 27, 2014): 245–73. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-014-9427-y.
Loertscher S, Marx LM. An Oligopoly Model for Analyzing and Evaluating (Re)-Assignments of Spectrum Licenses. Review of Industrial Organization. 2014 Sep 27;45(3):245–73.
Loertscher, S., and L. M. Marx. “An Oligopoly Model for Analyzing and Evaluating (Re)-Assignments of Spectrum Licenses.” Review of Industrial Organization, vol. 45, no. 3, Sept. 2014, pp. 245–73. Scopus, doi:10.1007/s11151-014-9427-y.
Loertscher S, Marx LM. An Oligopoly Model for Analyzing and Evaluating (Re)-Assignments of Spectrum Licenses. Review of Industrial Organization. 2014 Sep 27;45(3):245–273.
Published In
Review of Industrial Organization
DOI
EISSN
1573-7160
ISSN
0889-938X
Publication Date
September 27, 2014
Volume
45
Issue
3
Start / End Page
245 / 273
Related Subject Headings
- Economics
- 3801 Applied economics
- 1402 Applied Economics