Scale economies, technical change and productivity growth in Japanese local telecommunications services

Nemoto, Jiro; Asai, Shigeo

doi:10.1016/s0922-1425(02)00005-1

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“…The resulting competition is high, and firms have to improve productivity and capacity in order to retain and acquire customers. In the wired telecom industry, productivity increased by about 5.0 percent per year, and technological progress has mostly contributed to this increase (Madden and Savage 1999;Noel 2001;Nemoto and Asai 2002). Since firms in the mobile telecom industry operated in an environment that was favorable for rapid revenue growth and high capacity utilization, we hypothesize that Hypothesis 1 The U.S. mobile telecom industry experienced significant productivity growth between 2000 and 2002.…”

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“…Our results indicate that the 1 However, a few studies have examined productivity change in the traditional wireline part of the telecom industry. Nemoto and Asai (2002) examine the productivity growth of local telecommunications services in Japan and find that technological change was the dominant contributor to productivity growth. Noel (2001) examines productivity change, technical progress, and efficiency improvement in the U.S. wireline telecommunications industry.…”

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Technological progress and productivity growth in the U.S. mobile telecommunications industry

Banker

Cao²,

Menon

et al. 2009

Ann Oper Res

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The fast growing U.S. mobile wireless industry has been experiencing dramatic technological change and substantial competition. As a result of these catalysts, we argue that wireless firms have experienced significant productivity improvement and provide new evidence that technological progress almost exclusively contributed to productivity improvements in the wireless industry by significantly expanding the production possibilities set. We employ nonparametric estimation procedures based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) that utilize input-output data from a representative sample of 16 firms in the mobile wireless industry to estimate productivity change, technological change, and relative efficiency change for the period spanning the years from 2000 to 2002. Our findings show that the industry experienced a significant growth of 13% in productivity, which was primarily due to an average technological progress of 9.9% in the industry. Additionally, we find that national wireless operators experienced significantly higher productivity growth and contributed more to technological progress than regional providers. Firms that were industry pioneers as evidenced by high market share at the beginning of our sample period experienced higher productivity growth and greater technological progress compared to firms with lower initial market share. Moreover, the industry experienced significantly higher productivity growth and technical progress in the later sample period between 2001 and 2002 than in the early period between 2000 and 2001.

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Technological progress and productivity growth in the U.S. mobile telecommunications industry

Banker

Cao²,

Menon

et al. 2009

Ann Oper Res

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“…A lot of studies have tried to establish a link between size and performance; however, most of them have shown that large companies are on average more efficient than small companies. This is due to the market power of large companies, strategic grouping by companies, and economies of scale (Dhawan, 2001 (Nemoto & Asai, 2002;Symeou, 2011), insurance (Fecher, Perelman, & Pestieau, 1993), transport (Assaf, 2009;Assaf & Gillen, 2012) and hotels (Assaf, Barros, & Josiassen, 2012;Pulina, Detotto, & Paba, 2010). With regard to the ski industry, the study carried out by Falk (2009) compared the efficiency of large ski resort conglomerates with independent ski resorts.…”

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Evaluating the performance drivers of French ski resorts: A hierarchical approach

2019

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This paper aims to analyse the operational performance of French ski resorts by using data envelopment analysis models. The findings show that the hierarchical category data envelopment analysis is more appropriate than the standard one as it takes into account heterogeneity. The impact of the business environment (size, ownership, elevation, and location) on performance level is assessed with efficiency scores that are significantly higher for smaller ski resorts, those that are public managed, and those located at medium elevations. In addition, the results highlight a statistical relation between ski resort location and performance. Finally, the implications of the results and future research perspectives are discussed.

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“…Since materials costs mostly arise from operating and maintaining subscriber lines, the number of subscribers is used as a proxy for the quantity of materials. Similar definitions have been adopted by McKenzie and Small (1997), Resende (1999), and Nemoto and Asai (2002). P K : the capital price = the price index of the capital goods ¥ (the interest rate of the government guaranteed bonds + the rate of depreciation), 9 given the rate of depreciation = the depreciation expenses / the equipment expenses at the beginning of the fiscal year.…”

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The regional cost gap of the Japanese local telecommunications service

Ida¹,

Asai²

2005

Papers in Regional Science

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The focus of the Japanese local telecommunications policy is shifting towards solving the problem of the digital divide that accompanies the spread of high-speed and broadband services. The article estimates a translog cost function of two outputs - the standard telephone service and the leased circuit service - and measures the regional gap of those stand-alone costs and incremental costs. The main point we make is that the cost gap for the leased circuit service is larger than that for the standard telephone service among the 11 Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) regional offices. Copyright RSAI 2005.

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Scale economies, technical change and productivity growth in Japanese local telecommunications services

Cited by 10 publications

References 14 publications

Technological progress and productivity growth in the U.S. mobile telecommunications industry

Technological progress and productivity growth in the U.S. mobile telecommunications industry

Evaluating the performance drivers of French ski resorts: A hierarchical approach

The regional cost gap of the Japanese local telecommunications service

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