Ralf Dewenter

Publication List Details

Period

1998 - 2009

Number

41

Co-Authors

Wettbewerbliche Auswirkungen eines nichtneutralen Internets (2009)

Dewenter, Ralf, Jaschinski, Thomas, Wiese, Nadine

Diskussionspapier / Technische Universität Ilmenau, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre ; 64 ISSN 0949-3859

Indirect network effects with two salop circles: the example of the music industry (2009)

Dewenter, Ralf, Haucap, Justus, Wenzel, Tobias

Abstract: This paper analyses the interdependency between the market for music recordings and concert tickets, assuming that there are positive indirect network effects both from the record market to...

Crossmediale Fusionen und Meinungsvielfalt: juristische und ökonomische Betrachtungen (2008)

Dörr, Dieter, Kallfaß, Hermann H., Dewenter, Ralf, Schipanski, Tankred, Walterscheid, Heike, Kuchinke, Björn A., ...

Das Buch ist der dritte Sammelband in der medienrechtlichen Schriftenreihe des Universitätsverlags Ilmenau, die von Prof. Frank Fechner herausgegeben wird. Basierend auf einer interdisziplinären...

Mobile Number Portability in Europe (2006)

Stefan Bühler, Ralf Dewenter, Justus Haucap

This paper examines the causes and effects of mobile number portability (MNP) and provides a survey of its implementation in Europe. It first examines the competitive effects and costs of introducing...

Die Liberalisierung de Telekommunikationsbranche in Deutschland( The Liberalization of the Telecommunication-Industry in Germany) (1998)

Dewenter, Ralf, Haucap, Justus

There was a duet-pole-competition at least since 1991. Since the market-opening in the year 1998, however, the German telecommunication-industry has, like the telecommunication in other European...

Mobile Number Portability in Europe (1998)

Buehler, Stephan, Dewenter, Ralf, Haucap, Justus

This paper examines the causes and effects of mobile number portability (MNP) and provides a survey of its implementation in Europe. We first examine the competitive effects and the costs of...

Estimating Demand Elasticities for Mobile Telecommunications in Austria (1998)

Dewenter, Ralf, Haucap, Justus

This paper analyzes price elasticities in the Austrian market for mobile telecommunications services using data on firm-specific data on different tariffs. Both static and dynamic panel data analyses...

Cinema Demand In Germany

Ralf Dewenter, Michael Westermann

This paper examines the German cinema market using time series data covering the period 1950–2002. Applying estimation techniques such as OLS, 2SLS and SUR, we identify interrelations between the...

Monopolalarm im Pressesektor : geplante GWB-Novelle schadet der Pressevielfalt

Ralf Dewenter, Björn Frank, Christian Wey

Die schlechte wirtschaftliche Situation vieler Zeitungs- und Zeitschriftenverleger spiegelt nicht nur konjunkturelle Einflüsse wider, sondern ist auch begründet in spürbaren Strukturverschiebungen...

Anmerkungen zur ökonomischen Bewertung von Fusionen auf dem Printmedienmarkt

Dewenter, Ralf, Kaiser, Ulrich

Die aktuelle Diskussion um die Novellierung der deutschen Pressefusionskontrolle macht deutlich, welche Relevanz medienökonomische Fragestellungen haben. Was jedoch bei dieser Diskussion häufig...

Demand Elasticities for Mobile Telecommunications in Austria

Ralf Dewenter, Justus Haucap

This paper analyses price elasticities in the Austrian market for mobile telecommunications services using data on firm specific tariffs in the period between January 1998 and March 2002. Dynamic...

The Effects of Regulating Mobile Termination Rates for Asymmetric Networks

Ralf Dewenter, Justus Haucap

mobile termination, telecommunications, consumer ignorance, price regulation,

Horizontale Fusionen auf zweiseitigen Märkten am Beispiel von Printmedien

Ralf Dewenter, Ulrich Kaiser

The recent discussion about the revision of German merger control underlines the relevance of media economic questions. This discussion frequently neglects the particularities of media markets, for...

Fusionen auf dem Printmedienmarkt aus wirtschaftspolitischer Sicht

Ralf Dewenter, Ulrich Kaiser

Printmedienmärkte weisen eine Reihe besonderer Eigenschaften auf, die sie von gewöhnlichen Produktmärkten unterscheiden. Die beiden wichtigsten dieser abgrenzenden Charakteristika sind (i) die...

Netzneutralitaet

Dewenter, Ralf

Das Vorhaben einiger Breitbandnetzbetreiber, Content Provider fuer die Durchleitung der Inhalte zu bepreisen, hat in den USA eine erbitterte Debatte darueber hervorgerufen, ob und inwiefern...

Estimating the Value of Advertising

Dewenter, Ralf

Mass-medias are characterized by at least two interrelated markets. Therefore, the media firm has to satisfy two interdependent demands, the demand for magazines and the demand for advertising. The...

Raising the Scores? Empirical Evidence on the Introduction of the Three-Point Rule in Portugese Football

Dewenter, Ralf

This paper provides an empirical analysis on the effectiveness of incentives when pay-offs were changed. Using data on Portuguese first division football matches the effects of the introduction of...

Mobile Termination with Asymmetric Networks

Dewenter, Ralf, Haucap, Justus

This paper examines mobile termination fees and their regulation when networks are asymmetric in size. It is demonstrated that with consumer ignorance about the exact termination rates (a) a mobile...

Hedonic Prices in the German Market for Mobile Phones

Dewenter, Ralf, Haucap, Justus, Luther, Ricardo, Roetzel, Peter

This paper provides a hedonic price analysis of mobile telephones for the German market. We have assembled data on 302 different handsets from 25 manufacturers over the period from May 1998 to...

Estimating Demand Elasticities for Mobile Telecommunications in Austria

Dewenter, Ralf, Haucap, Justus

This paper analyzes price elasticities in the Austrian market for mobile telecommunications services using data on firm specific tariffs. Both static and a dynamic panel data approaches lead to...

Anmerkungen zur oekonomischen Bewertung von Fusionen auf dem Printmedienmarkt

Dewenter, Ralf, Kaiser, Ulrich

Die aktuelle Diskussion um die Novellierung der deutschen Pressefusionskontrolle macht deutlich, welche Relevanz medienoekonomische Fragestellungen haben. Was jedoch bei dieser Diskussion haeufig...

Mobile Number Portability in Europe

Buehler, Stefan, Dewenter, Ralf, Haucap, Justus

This paper examines the causes and effects of mobile number portability (MNP) and provides a survey of its implementation in Europe. We first examine the competitive effects and the costs of...

Calling Party Pays or Receiving Party Pays?

Dewenter, Ralf, Kruse, Joern

This paper analyzes the impact of different payment regimes for mobileto- mobile off-net calls on the diffusion of mobile telephony, using data on 84 countries from all over the world. Since the...

Das Konzept der zweiseitigen Maerkte am Beispiel von Zeitungsmonopolen

Dewenter, Ralf

Das vorliegende Papier erlaeutert anhand eines einfachen Modells der Zeitungsmonopole, die Relevanz der Theorie der zweiseitigen Maerkte fuer den Mediensektor. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei die...

First-Mover Vorteile im Schweizer Mobilfunk

Haucap, Justus, Dewenter, Ralf

Im vorliegenden Papier werden die Ursachen und das Ausmass von so genannten First-Mover Vorteilen (FMV) analysiert und wettbewerbsoekonomische sowie regulierungspolitische Implikationen eroertert. Im...

Rational Addiction to News?

Dewenter, Ralf

Quarterly data of magazine circulation are used to analyse the consumption behaviour of the readers of German popular magazines in a panel framework using OLS, 2SLS and generalized method of moments...

Media Markets with Habit Formation

Dewenter, Ralf

The aim of this paper is to analyse the pricing behaviour of print media firms when consumption on reader markets is addictive or habituated. However, not only the reader but also the advertising...

Quality Provision in Interrelated Markets

Dewenter, Ralf

This paper analyses the quality provision of interrelated market firms under different market structures both theoretically and empirically. A theoretical model is built, where a media firm offers...

The Economics of Media Markets

Dewenter, Ralf

Media and especially mass media like newspapers or magazines are characterised by a number of peculiarities which are interesting from both a theoretical and empirical point of view. The...

Demand Elasticities for Mobile Telecommunications in Austria

Ralf Dewenter, Justus Haucap

This paper analyses price elasticities in the Austrian market for mobile telecommunications services using data on firm specific tariffs in the period between Janaury 1998 and March 2002. As a...

Indirect network effects with two Salop circles: the example of the music industry

Dewenter, Ralf, Haucap, Justus, Wenzel, Tobias

This paper analyses the interdependency between the market for music recordings and concert tickets, assuming that there are positive indirect network effects both from the record market to ticket...

Co-determination and Innovation

Kraft, Kornelius, Stank, Jörg, Dewenter, Ralf

This paper examines the effect of the German co-determination law of 1976 (MitbestG) on the innovative activity of German firms. Co-determination applies to firms with 2000 employees or more. Data...