Webinar Series on ICTs Policy Research
Topic: Foreclosing Competition throught access charges and Price Discrimination
Tuesday, October 6th 2009
Time: 4:30 pm, GMT Summer Time (London, GMT+01:00)
Professor Angel Lopez
http://www.iese.edu/en/Research/CentersandChairs/Centers/SPSP/Investigacion/Equipo/LpezngelLuis.asp
IESE Business School
Abstract: This article analyzes competition between two asymmetric networks, an incumbent and a new entrant. Networks compete in non-linear tariffs and may charge different prices for on-net and off-net calls. Departing from cost-based access pricing allows the incumbent to foreclose the market in a profitable way. If the incumbent benefits from customer inertia, then it has an incentive to insist in the highest possible access markup even if access charges are reciprocal and even in the absence of actual switching costs. If instead the entrant benefits from customer activism, then foreclosure is profitable only when switching costs are large enough.
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