Launching and stimulating competition in telecommunications markets is an important policy goal. It contains two elements: to encourage entry and to make competition effective such that consumers benefit. The first one requires that entrants can make profits after investing in infrastructure so...

Regulators have long been aware of the social aspects of communication. In the past, regulated monopolists have provided Universal Service Obligations, typically funded via a systeme of cross-subsidies. In this paper, we first review the rationale for imposing Universal Service Obligations,...

The residence-based taxation of interest income in the EU faces the difficulty that taxpayers may evade taxation by holding bank accounts in other countries. The EU therefore makes considerable efforts to achieve cooperation among EU member states in order to improve tax enforcement. The present...

Die globale Dimension der Klimaschutzpolitik, die seit der Kyoto Konferenz im Jahre 1997 mit der Diskussion konkreter Ziele und Instrumente Gegenstand der internationalen Politik geworden ist, impliziert für die handelnde Umweltpolitik ein gewaltiges Informationsproblem, das nur durch den...