Tommaso Majer
Welcome to my webpage. I am a final year PhD student with main research interests in the areas of applied microeconomics, industrial organization, telecommunications and regulation.
I am currently a job market candidate and I will be available for interviews and presentations at the following events: Simposio de la Asociación Española de Economía in Valencia (10-12 December 2009), the ASSA meeting in Atlanta (3-5 January 2010), the RES PhD meeting in London (16-17 January 2010).
Contact details:
Office B3-114
Tel +34 93 581 18 10
e-mail Tommaso.Majer@uab.cat
mail International Doctorate in Economic Analysis
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB),
Departament d’Economia i Historia Econòmica
Edifici B, Campus UAB
08193, Bellaterra, Barcelona
Bilateral monopoly in telecommunications: bargaining over fixed-to-mobile termination rates
(Job market paper)
Abstract:
My job market paper is about competition among telecommunication operators and the determination of the the fixed-to-mobile access prices. An access price (or termination rate) is the price that a provider has to pay to another provider for terminating a call on the network of the latter.
When a phone call is made, providers face two costs: a cost for originating the call and a cost to connect the called party. The former is supported by the network that originates the call, the latter from the network to which belongs the called party. Therefore, when a customer of Telefonica calls a friend who has a Vodafone mobile, Vodafone will charge Telefonica a fee for terminating the call on its network. This fee is the termination rate and it forms part of Telefonica's cost of providing the call to its customer.
In my paper I focus my attention on the determination of the fixed-to-mobile termination rates.
