Unter diesem Titel hat das ifo Institut in diesem Frühjahr eine Studie veröffentlicht, die zehn Jahre nach der Einführung der sektorspezifischen Regulierung und beträchtlichen Markterfolgen in der Telekommunikation prüfte, ob das ursprüngliche Ziel einer vorübergehenden Regulierung aus...

Performance-based regulation (PBR) is influenced by the Bayesian and non-Bayesian incentive mechanisms. While Bayesian incentives are impractical, the insights from their properties can be combined with practical non-Bayesian mechanisms for application to transmission pricing. This combination...

International calls include consumption and financial externalities. Theoretical analysis predicts that the volume of outbound and inbound calls is a function of originating-country price ("own-price") and terminating-country price ("cross-price"). Analysis of annual data for minutes of calling...

The first half of this paper overviews traditional methods of rate-making--embedded and marginal cost pricing--and four recent alternatives--automatic rate adjustments, profit-sharing, tariff menus, and the Vogelsang-Finsinger convergence mechanism--that have come to challenge them. The authors...

U.S. network industry reforms led other countries in the past, but have recently run into difficulties in specific areas. In particular, the U.S. telecommunications sector was hit by a deep crisis and electricity reforms suffered under the California disaster. Part of the explanation for these...