The transition towards 5G-based smart network industries is concomitant with a fundamental change of the traditional physical infrastructures driven by digitalization which pervades all decision-relevant components of the infrastructure value chains. The goal of this paper is to develop a...

Günter Knieps, Universität Freiburg, zeigt, dass die Fortschritte der Digitalisierung und der damit einhergehende Übergang zu intelligenten Netzsektoren für die zukünftigen europäischen Verkehrsmärkte von zentraler Bedeutung sind. Um die großen Potenziale digitaler...

The reform of European railroads is a time-consuming process strongly charac-terized by its path-dependency. Firstly, a short outline of the historical roots of the controversial debates on the role of the state and the markets, and the organi-zation of competition in European railroad...

Während der Phase der partiellen Marktöffnung in den europäischen Telekommunikationssektoren stand der institutionelle Reformprozess hin zu einer umfassenden Marktöffnung im Zentrum. Gegenstand dieser Abhandlung ist die Telekommunikationsregulierung nach der umfassenden Marktöffnung....

International mobile roaming cartel agreements prompted the EU to intervene, firstly encompassing competition law measures by a cartel exemption, then ini-tiating several competition proceedings based on the accusation of abuse of a dominant market position, and finally applying price...

Die in der Novelle des Personenbeförderungsgesetzes vollzogene Marktspaltung in vor Marktzutritt geschütztem öffentlichem Personennahverkehr und wettbe-werblichem Linienbusfernverkehr ist willkürlich. Wettbewerbspotenziale zeigen sich bei freiem Marktzutritt sowohl im Fernverkehr als auch im...

The markets for network-based products and services pose particular problems with regard to competition. The transition from monopolistic to competitive structures and the issues of infrastructure sharing, dominant players and network externalities have all been subject to intensive debates....

The aim of this paper is to analyze the liberalization of the aviation value chain and the remaining role of government policy. In particular, the role of sector-specific regulation of monopolistic bottleneck components of the air traffic value chain is analyzed. For competition on air transport...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of market-oriented institutional reforms in German network industries. A disaggregated approach is chosen, which differentiates between network services, infrastructure management and network infrastructure. The gradual opening of network...

In order to analyse the role of competition in the post-trade markets a normative network economic analysis of securities business is provided. The theory of monopolistic bottlenecks constitutes the theoretical reference point for this analysis in order to identify stable network specific market...