This paper analyses the major effects of liberalization in the Nordic countries (Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland) and the likely evolution of telecommunications policy in the light of their involvement in the European Economic Area. The structure of the actors, their regulation and envisaged...

Events since 1989 have profoundly altered the political and economic shape of Eastern Europe. The European Community, in particular, faces new challenges and oppurtunities as it is called upon to help in the restructuring of the old command economies, and it also has difficult decisions to make...

The European airport industry is subject to various forms of economic regulation and there is debate as to which of the systems provides the best incentives for allocative and productive efficiency. This paper deals with the applicability of benchmarking as a regulatory tool for airports. This...

The motion of individual Brownian particles is observed using the confocal Tracking Microscope recently introduced by Schätzel (K. Schätzel, W. G. Neumann, J. Müller and B. Materzok, App. Opt. 31 (1992) 770–778). Particles are laterally trapped in a strongly focused laser beam. By...

This paper outlines some first results from a study on the technical efficiency and total factor productivity (TFP) of 17 international airports in Germany. The analysis was undertaken with panel data from 1998 - 2002. According to the Malmquist-DEA the performance at nearly every airport...