completed in September 2006 and was accepted as a Ph.D. thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich. The … subject of this study is the analysis of network industries with particular emphasis on privatization in this field in general … and regulation and productivity measurement of the German electricity industry in particular. The methodological approach …

In the course of the liberalization of European energy markets, the German government opted - diverging from all other … European countries - for Negotiated Third-Party Access. In this article we analyze if, theoretically, this institutional regime … can be superior to regulation. We review empirically whether certain aspects of the actual implementation, in particular …