Cost of Non-Europe Reports identify the possibilities for economic or other gains and/or the realisation of a 'public good' through common action at EU level in specific policy areas and sectors. This Cost of Non-Europe Report seeks to analyse the costs for citizens, businesses and relevant...

The workshop set out to clarify questions and problems pertaining to the award of concessions contracts. For this purpose it focused on four main topics: the characteristics and problems of the award of concessions contracts from an economic perspective, the legal perspective on the Commission's...

In a road infrastructure concession, a public authority grants specific rights to a private, or semi-public company to construct, overhaul, maintain, and operate infrastructure for a given period. By contract, the public authority charges that company with making the investments needed to create...

This paper analyses, in a critical perspective, the evolution in accounting for ‘concession arrangements'. It is aimed to verify: if the new regulatory framework is sufficiently clear to allow a transparent and coherent accounting of such operations, which is its effect on public and private...

This project examines how market signals in the form of pricing information can be introduced into spectrum management in order to optimally guide not only assignment, but also determinations concerning type of use, emissions characteristics and exclusivity. We construct a mathematical model to...

This study aims to suggest macrolevel framework for the design of spectrum auction and relevant policy directions to improve the usage efficiencies of spectrum which will be secured as Korean government pushes forward with the mobile Gwangaeto plan. To develop a framework, we have selected...