The 'Communication, Dissemination and Stakeholder Engagement Strategy' (CDSES) defines the framework to guide dissemination activities within UVAR Box throughout the project. It identifies and describes the target groups for dissemination activities and explains how to reach them. It provides...

Heterogeneous interconnections, which link regulated electricity markets to liberalised ones, are becoming increasingly important. Several such interconnections are set to be established in the near future especially between European and North African countries (e.g., Tunisia-Italy,...

Der Aufbau des Textes folgt dem Fragebogen der Monopolkommission vom 28.1.2025. Dieser ist gegliedert in die Abteilungen: I) Allgemeine Entwicklung der Wettbewerbsbedingungen II) DB InfraGO AG III) Entwicklungen der Trassenentgelte IV) Sonstiges Die 23 Fragen der Monopolkommission sind...

The implementation of traffic differentiation measures by internet service providers (ISPs) has raised concerns regarding net neutrality, potentially leading to discriminatory practices that challenge existing regulatory frameworks. The complexity of this issue intensifies with the advent of 5G...

Die Bundesnetzagentur plant eine Verlängerung der Frequenznutzungsrechte für Telefonica, Telekom und Vodafone bis zum Jahr 2030. Damit verbunden ist ein Verhandlungsgebot. Dieses verpflichtet die etablierten Netzbetreiber, mit 1&1 über den Zugang zu Frequenzen unterhalb von 1 GHz zu...

The theory of incentive regulation has guided the evolution of regulatory regimes for energy networks across Europe for most of the 2000s. Recent examples of regulatory reform, however, show a worrying trend towards neglect of these principles. This article critically discusses two recent...

This article presents an approach to minimize the outage costs during power supply disruptions and, thus, to incentivize efficient resilience investment by network users. The central problem to be solved is the information asymmetry between network operators and network users on outage and...

Net neutrality has been one of the most controversial issues in internet regulation. Currently, there is no policy or regulation on net neutrality in the Philippines. This might change, however, with the inclusion of paid prioritization and throttling among the prohibited acts in the proposed...

Digital platforms and data-driven business models have become integral to today's internet economy. Large technology companies like Apple, Google, Amazon and Microsoft exert control over access to online content, products, services and social interactions through their digital ecosystems and...

Die wirtschaftliche Replizierbarkeit von Endkundenprodukten marktbeherrschender Unternehmen ist eine der Voraussetzungen für eine flexiblere Entgeltregulierung von Breitbandvorleistungen. Diese wird anhand des Economic Replicability Test (ERT) überprüft. Im Rahmen des ERT prüft die nationale...

Digitale Plattformen und datengesteuerte Geschäftsmodelle sind zu einem festen Bestandteil der heutigen Internetwirtschaft geworden. Große Technologieunternehmen wie Apple, Google, Amazon und Microsoft üben durch ihre digitalen Ökosysteme und die damit verbundene GatekeepingMacht die...

Net neutrality is the principle that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all web traffic equally. This means, in general, that ISPs may not block, slow down or speed up the transmission of any content or services. This is meant to promote an ‘open internet’: allowing users to...

This paper presents an approach for resilience incentives in the regulation of electricity network operators. Resilience is the ability of the power system to deal quickly and efficiently with large-scale and long-lasting power interruptions. It comprises two related aspects: minimizing the...

Lokal zugeteilte Frequenzen im Bereich 3,7 GHz ermöglichen die Errichtung von 5G-Campusnetzen in Deutschland. Aktuell sind bereits innovative Anwendungen im Bereich Industrie 4.0 oder der Intralogistik von 5G möglich. Die Entwicklung von 5G-Campusnetzen ist jedoch ein evolutorischer Prozess....

In den Zugangsnetzen der nächsten Generation (Next Generation Access, NGA) hat sich seit den Zeiten der klassischen Kupferdoppeladern des Telefonnetzes viel getan und es wird sich auch noch viel tun, selbst wenn die Kupferdoppeladern letztlich alle auf Glasfaseranschlussnetze umgestellt sein...

Decarbonization of the electricity sector, and expanding it to facilitate decarbonization of transportation, heating, and other energy applications primarily using fossil fuels, is an important step in mitigating climate change. A widely advocated step in that direction is long-term planning to...

This thesis explores the historical, policy, and technical contexts surrounding Network (or Net) Neutrality debate in the United States. With an understanding of these contexts, Internet users and decision makers alike may gain a more developed understanding of the current state of this debate...

We compare networks constructed using five commonly used methods and publicly available daily market data to networks based on reported exposures along several dimensions of the balance sheet, i.e., loans, bonds, equity. Our findings suggest that while the global network structure remains...

Various methods have been proposed to search for molecules with the desired properties. However, it remains difficult due to the vastness of the search space. Because of the reason, it is not easy to obtain a suitable solution by applying randomized algorithms.In recent years, deep...

To boost the roll-out of the next generation telecommunications infrastructure, EU policy makers have advanced a proposal mandating some large online platforms to compensate network operators with a usage fee. Framed as a matter of large market players paying their fair share of contribution to...

This article presents an approach to minimize the outage costs during power supply disruptions and, thus, to incentivize efficient resilience investment by network users. The central problem to be solved is the information asymmetry between network operators and network users on outage and...

Whether network slicing complies with the net neutrality rules currently in force in Europe and previously applicable in the U.S. presents a key issue in the deployment of 5G. In many ways, both regimes frame the issues in a similar manner, with the exceptions for reasonable traffic management...

In the future, the amount of electricity end-users demand from the distribution grid is going to be more uncertain. In this paper, we empirically investigate how this will influence the pricing behaviour distribution system operators (DSOs) that are subject to an ex-ante revenue cap and a...

In this paper, we analyze how wholesale access fees of a crucial input can be utilized to influence demands for products of different technologies and the deployment sequence between an incumbent and entrant firm. In a setting of multi-product competition with horizontally differentiated...

Abstract: There have been recent calls for new regulation of package delivery in the EU. We provide a detailed description of the evolution of access regulation in the telecommunications industry in the EU and package delivery services in the EU to examine lessons from the telecommunications...

We analyze the competitive effects of various interconnection regimes. Compared to the case in which platforms are not interconnected, we find that implementing within-group interconnection by a dominant group of platforms could reduce market prices and raise the interconnected platforms’...

We evaluate the welfare effects of the Roam-Like-At-Home regulation, which drastically re-duced the price of accessing the mobile internet for EU residents when traveling abroad in the European Economic Area. Estimates from individual-level usage data suggest that consumer surplus increased by...

Recent regulations in the U.S. and Europe incentivize the use of central counterparty clearing houses (CCP) to clear derivatives, arguably to create a less complex and more transparent interbank network that is less prone to financial instabilities. We construct a network model with endogenous...