Tangled telecommunications regulation / Wernhard Möschel -- The path to competition for telecommunications in Germany / Christoph Engel -- Costing and pricing in liberalized telecommunications markets / Günter Knieps -- Regulation by TSLRIC : economic effects on investment and innovation /...

The railroad package of 2001 focusing on access regulation is in the process of a reform. Particularly, the European Commission intends to remove the obstacles to fair competition that have been identified since 2001. In this context, the paper points out the relevance of the disaggregated...

This chapter is organized as follows: In section 2 the historical roots of third par-ty access regulation are characterized. This includes the Prussian railway law of 1838 and the terminal railroad case of 1912. In section 3 a normative frame-work, based on modern network economics, for the...

Die Deutsche Bahn wird nach ihrer finanziellen Sanierung Mitte der neunziger Jahre sowohl 2001 als auch 2002 wieder hohen Geschäftsverlusten entgegensehen. Einer der Gründe für die prognostizierte unbefriedigende finanzielle Entwicklung sind ungenügende Fortschritte im Bereich der...