Fibre-deployment of next-generation communications networks is currently a major challenge for investing firms as well as for national regulators and is also subject to hot debates at EU level. This work examines the role of regulatory policies and competition controlling for relevant supply and...

Economists expect positive returns to investments in infrastructure. However a project with higher national returns might have less favourable effects on a regional level than the alternative. Therefore new infrastructure should also be assessed on a regional level, but econom(etr)ic evaluation...

Economists expect positive returns to investments in infrastructure. However a project with higher national returns might have less favourable effects on a regional level than the alternative. Therefore new infrastructure should also be assessed on a regional level, but econom(etr)ic evaluation...

In this paper we describe the EAR (regional economic accessibility) model to investigate the impact of the improvement of railroad infrastructure on regional GDP, population and firms growth in 99 Austrian regions. We evaluate the impact of four potential railroad infrastructure investment...

Im Koalitionsvertrag kündigen CDU, CSU und SPD an, dass sie den flächendeckenden Ausbau mit Gigabit-Netzen bis 2025 anstreben. Jochen Homann, Bundesnetzagentur, hinterfragt, ob der bestehende Ordnungsrahmen, der ursprünglich auf die Überführung eines Monopols in den Wettbewerb ausgerichtet...