STICERD Industrial Organisation Seminars
Spillover Effects in Complementary Markets: A Study of the Indian Cell Phone and Wireless Service Markets
Ying Fan (Michigan)
Monday 10 March 2025 16:00 - 17:30
Many of our seminars and public events this year will continue as in person or as hybrid (online and in person) events. Please check our website listings and Twitter feed @STICERD_LSE for updates.
Unless otherwise specified, in-person seminars are open to the public. Please ensure you have informed the event contact as early as possible.
Those unable to join the seminars in-person are welcome to participate via zoom if the event is hybrid.
About this event
This paper studies indirect network effects on firm entry and product variety in the Indian mobile phone industry during the 4G rollout, focusing on the cell phone and wireless service markets. We highlight that the presence of international firms in the cell phone market accelerates 4G deployment in the wireless market, which in turn influences the product choices of domestic firms. Based on an estimated structural model of consumer demand, carriers' 4G network expansions, and cell phone firms product choices, we conduct counterfactual simulations to assess the impact of protectionist policies amid these spillover effects.
Industrial Organisation seminars are held on Mondays in term time at 16:00-17:30, in person in SAL 3.05, unless specified otherwise.
Seminar organiser: Alessandro Gavazza.
For further information please contact Sadia Ali: s.ali43@lse.ac.uk.
Please use this link to subscribe or unsubscribe to the Industrial Organisation seminars mailing list (industry).