Aus dem Spektrum des Regelungsbereichs netzgebundener Leistungen lassen sich zumindest drei Kernbereiche herauskristallisieren. Erstens: technische Regulierungsfunktionen: Standardisierung und Netzsicherheit. Zweitens: Versorgungssicherheit und Universaldienstziele. Drittens: die Abgrenzung...

This paper explores the interrelations between pricing, capacity choice and financingin transportation networks. It builds on the famous Mohring-Harwitz result on self-financing ofoptimally designed roads under optimal congestion pricing, and specifically investigates itsins and outs in a...

A dynamic 'car-following' extension of the conventional economic model of traffic congestion is presented, which predicts the average cost function for trips in stationary states to be significantly different from the conventional average cost function derived from the speed-flow function. When...

Conventional economic wisdom suggests that congestion pricing would be an appropriate response to cope with the growing congestion levels currently experienced at many airports. Several characteristics of aviation markets, however, may make naive congestion prices equal to the value of marginal...

A central feature of many models of location choice - whether of firms or households, within or across cities - is the role of local interactions or spillovers, whereby the payoffs from choosing a location depend in part on the number or attributes of other individuals or firms that choose the...

With the growing recognition of the role played by geography in all sorts of economic problems, there is strong interest in measuring the size and scope of local spillovers (i.e., simple anonymous agglomeration or congestion effects, or more complicated interactions between individuals or firms...

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 generated substantial controversy regarding the prices that competitive local exchange carriers should pay for using the unbundled network elements ("UNEs") of local exchange carriers. Throughout the debate, two primary pricing methods have been advocated: (1)...

I consider the problem of the efficient provision of a public good with congestion in a setting with asymmetric information. I show, in particular, that when congestion is taken into account, in a wide class of economies it is possible to construct an incentive compatible mechanism that always...

Conventional economic wisdom suggests that congestion pricing would be an appropriate response to cope with the growing congestion levels currently experienced at many airports. Several characteristics of aviation markets, however, may make naive congestion prices equal to the value of marginal...