The working report looks at the actual situation of the German water market, the only infrastructuremarket the EU has not encouraged to deregulate until now. Especially importantfactors are the environmental relevance of the water market and the importance of water as afood. At the moment,...

Water is a vital resource for human existence on earth. The importance of this resource to the wellbeingof mankind and the general scarcity of drinking water which is expected to grow requires thepublic to reflect on the best ways to address demand and supply issues. Therefore, the discourse...

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities andemployment protection legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECDcountries...

The emerging literature on interaction between strategic trade theoryand privatisation uses a simple example to argue that the irrelevanceresult is invalidated if the domestic market is open to foreigncompetition.This paper uses a fairly general framework to show that anythinga regulated...

The assessment of capacity credits for wind energy and the value interpretation is reviewed critically. It is shown that the electricity market values the contribution to system reliability with market prices in a more precise way ...