Mobile Access Expansion and Price Information Diffusion : Firm Performance after Ethiopia’s Transition to 3G in 2008 (English)

This paper investigates whether enhanced access to mobile communications, including internet, primarily through smart phones, increases competition as price information is more widely available to customers—both households and firms. The exogenous shock to identify these impacts is the transition from 2G to the 3G broadband network standard in 2008, and the induced changes in the geographic variation across districts of data plan availability for...

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Abreha,Kaleb Girma;

Choi,Ji Eun;

Kassa,Woubet;

Kim,Hyun Ju;

Kugler,Maurice David;
Document Date
2021/08/23
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS9752
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Ethiopia,
Region
Eastern and Southern Africa,
Disclosure Date
2021/08/23
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Mobile Access Expansion and Price Information Diffusion : Firm Performance after Ethiopia’s Transition to 3G in 2008
Keywords
firm performance

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Abreha,Kaleb Girma; Choi,Ji Eun; Kassa,Woubet; Kim,Hyun Ju; Kugler,Maurice David.

Mobile Access Expansion and Price Information Diffusion : Firm Performance after Ethiopia’s Transition to 3G in 2008 (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 9752 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/230161629725057008

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