UPCOMING SEMINAR 2 March 2012: International Internet Roaming presented by Simona Fabrizi
iscr@vuw.ac.nz ISCR invites you to attend the upcoming lunchtime seminar presented by
Dr Simona Fabrizi of School of Economics and Finance, Massey University, Auckland:
Friday 2 March 2012
Old Government Building, Lecture Theatre 4 (GBLT4)
(Please note this is not our usual venue, OGB is across the road from
Rutherford House, GBLT4 is located on level 1)
Pipitea Campus, Victoria University, Wellington
12.30pm - 1.30pm
This is a free seminar.
International Internet Roaming
(joint with Steffen Lippert)
We study mobile data providers' pricing strategies and incentives to enter voluntary reciprocal international data roaming agreements. We show that roaming fees and retail prices charged to mobile data users at home and abroad vary under asymmetries in the domestic competition of providing roaming access and providers' relative bargaining power. A mutual moderation effect prevails only for symmetric degrees of competition across countries, while international integration inflates roaming fees and leads to incentives to foreclose non-integrated providers in more competitive markets. Finally, we discuss implications proposing novel ways for antitrust policy to combat against inflated international data retail roaming prices.
Keywords: international reciprocal data roaming agreements, data roaming fees, symmetric and asymmetric domestic competition, international integration, foreclosure, refusal to supply, bargaining, antitrust versus regulation
JEL codes: C7, F2, F5, L22, L42, L86, L96
Dr Simona Fabrizi is a Senior Lecturer in Economics and an Associate of the New Zealand ‘Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship Research Centre' - SIERC, at Massey University; as well as a member of the ‘Centre for Mathematical Social Sciences' - CMSS, at the University of Auckland. She has obtained a PhD in Economics from the Toulouse School of Economics and the University of Bologna for theoretical and policy oriented research on competition and regulation in the telecommunications industry. Her studies on roaming in the mobile Internet and on telecom operators' pricing strategies in particular have contributed to the literature on Network Economics as much as on Information Technology, with publications in leading international journals, such as Telecommunications Policy. Besides continuing working on Information Technology issues, Simona's research focuses on the Economics of Innovation (Marsden Funded project) and Behavioral Industrial Organisation.
If you would like to attend this seminar please contact:
iscr@vuw.ac.nz or phone: (04) 463-5562
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