Die Monopolkommission kommt in ihrem jüngsten Sondergutachten zur Funktionsfähigkeit des Wettbewerbs auf den TK-Märkten zum Schluss, dass sowohl die Fernnetze als auch die Ortsnetze weiterhin regulierungsbedürftig seien. Anhand ausländischer Erfahrungen, wettbewerbsökonomischer Analysen...

Electric power is a commodity with a number of peculiarities that are often conjured when calling for shelter from competition in the electricity sector. Among those special features is the alleged difficulty or even failure of the market process to maintain security of provision in view of...

This chapter is organized as follows: In section 2 the historical roots of third par-ty access regulation are characterized. This includes the Prussian railway law of 1838 and the terminal railroad case of 1912. In section 3 a normative frame-work, based on modern network economics, for the...