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Network Economics

Principles - Strategies - Competition Policy

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Günter Knieps

    1. Institute for Transport Economics and Regional Policy, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

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  • A modern approach to network economics providing an analytical framework for all relevant network industries
  • Relevant entrepreneurial strategies for costing and pricing in network industries
  • Well-founded concepts for regulation and competition policy in network industries

Part of the book series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics (STBE)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction to Network Economics

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    Pages 1-10

  3. Decision-Relevant Costs

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    Pages 11-33

  4. Congestion Externalities

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    Pages 35-72

  5. Strategies for Price Differentiation

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    Pages 73-85

  6. Auctions

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    Pages 87-99

  7. Compatibility Standards in Networks

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    Pages 101-120

  8. Universal Service

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    Pages 121-131

  9. Market Power Regulation

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    Pages 133-156

  10. The Positive Theory of Regulation

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    Pages 157-169

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 171-184
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About this book

This textbook on network economics provides essential microeconomic instruments for the analysis of network sectors like telecommunications, transport or energy. Network-specific characteristics emerge both on the cost side and benefit side, requiring network providers to develop innovative entrepreneurial competition strategies for costing, pricing, and investment. From a competition policy perspective, a number of interesting questions arise: In which parts of networks is competition functional? In contrast, where is an abuse of market power to be expected? What is the division of labor between cartel authorities and regulatory agencies? The book develops an analytical framework for all network industries which allows readers to study entrepreneurial strategies as well as regulation and competition policies for network industries.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Transport Economics and Regional Policy, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Günter Knieps

About the author

Günter Knieps is professor of Economics at the University of Freiburg (Germany) and Director of the Institute for Transport Economics and Regional Policy. Before that he held a position as professor of microeconomics at the University of Groeningen. He has diplomas in economics and mathematics and a PhD in mathematical economics from the University of Bonn. He obtained his habilitation in Bern. He is a Member of the Board of Academic Advisors to the Federal Ministry for Economics Affairs and Energy as well as of the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure. Professor Knieps' main research interests include the study of network economics, deregulation, competition policy, industrial economics, and sector studies on energy, telecommunications and transportation. He has published widely in academic and professional journals.

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