The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is in the process of revising its International Telecommunications Regulations (ITRs) for the first time since 1988. Many of the proposed revisions potentially entail a significant strengthening of the ITU’s role relative to the Internet. A...

In recent years, a number of telecommunications network operators have repeatedly raised concerns that the explosive growth of Internet traffic is causing their costs to spiral out of control, to the point where their services may no longer be sustainable. We find that this concern is not well...

The rise of the platform economy has been the subject of celebration and critique. Platform companies like Uber, Airbnb, and Postmates have been rightfully celebrated as positively disruptive, introducing much–needed competition in industries that have been otherwise over–mature and...

The net neutrality debate is now gathering steam in Europe, both at the Commission level and in member states. Against this background, four European telcos commissioned a report from AT Kearney [ATK], to support their opposition to net neutrality regulation. This report, 'A Viable Future Model...

Quality of life challenges, presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, emphasized the importance in achieving progress in making access to voice and broadband data services widespread and affordable. The virus forced nearly everyone to shelter in place, and to rely on wired and wireless technologies...

Das vorliegende Working Paper beinhaltet Vortragsmanuskripte zu drei Dissertationsprojekten,die in den Jahren 2002 und 2003 am Lehrstuhl erfolgreich abgeschlossen wurden. Eshandelt sich dabei um die Arbeit von Dr. Klinke zum Finanzcontrolling in mittelständischenBauunternehmen mit integrierten...

The European Unions's task of providing Trans-European Networks (TENs) in transportation, communications and energy transmission which has been enacted by the treaty of Maastricht, is not confined to internal networks in the EU. Since 1994 this task has been widened so as to give support to the...

We investigate the sensitivity of consumer surplus estimates to parametric assumptions on individual preference heterogeneity in a discrete choice framework. We compare results from a parametric random coefficients logit model and a recently proposed nonparametric sieve estimator. In particular,...

Das vorliegende Working Paper beinhaltet Vortragsmanuskripte zu drei Dissertationsprojekten, die in den Jahren 2002 und 2003 am Lehrstuhl erfolgreich abgeschlossen wurden. Es handelt sich dabei um die Arbeit von Dr. Klinke zum Finanzcontrolling in mittelständischen Bauunternehmen mit...