With regulation seeking to foster competition at the same time as also having to protect essential services, the authors investigate regulatory styles, costs of new regulatory functions and how firms in the new regulatory landscape access and influence regulatory authorities. The authors...

This compilation of original papers selected from the 19th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics and authored by an international cast of economists, lawyers, regulators and industry practitioners addresses perhaps the major problem that has ever faced the postal sector – electronic...

Begrüßung -- Einführung -- World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) -- Telekommunikation und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung: Politische Erfahrung und Herausforderung -- Technologiediffusion und globale Wissensvernetzung -- Technologie- und Wissensdiffusion als Heraufsorderung an die Player am...

How do high wage countries stay rich in a global digital economy? How Revolutionary was the Digital Revolution constructs a framework for analyzing the international digital era: one that examines the ability of political actors to innovate and experiment in spite of, or perhaps because of, the...

The use of information technology in the private household for consumers gains in importance. A whole new world of computerized home applications is already in place or under development. The market potential for the future will arise from the fact that information technology influences all...