The role of product innovation on the diffusion of mobile telephony

Arbeitspapier

Most existing empirical work on technology diffusion assumes technologies to remain constant throughout the diffusion process. However, many consumer technologies improve significantly over time. Using data on the characteristics of new mobile handsets over a ten-year period and controlling for potential endogeneity problems, we find that handset quality and variety had a significant impact on the global diffusion of mobile telephony. Our estimation results further suggest that earlier empirical studies on diffusion may have attributed too much of diffusion to network effects.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ETLA Discussion Papers ; No. 1200

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Telecommunications ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Thema: Product innovation ; Technology Diffusion ; Mobile Telephony ; Innovation ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Innovationsdiffusion ; Mobiltelefon ; Welt

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Koski, Heli ; Kretschmer, Tobias
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy (ETLA)
• (wo): Helsinki
• (wann): 2009

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/44552
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ