Dieser Band gibt die Beiträge zu einer internationalen Konferenz wieder, die das Wissenschaftliche Institut für Kommunikationsdienste der Deutschen Bundespost am 14. und 15. November 1988 im Wissenschaftszentrum Bonn veranstaltet hat. Ziel der Konferenz war es, ein Forum zu schaffen, auf dem...

The paper deals with the argument that a price-cap regulated firm maximizing profits under the price-cap constraint will set prices that over time approach the Ramsey structure. My analysis explores the effects of price caps on the structure of prices. The results are in important aspects at...

Our market modelling approach aims at practically determining wholesale pricing policies for the switch from copper to fibre access networks. It asks which market equilibria for incumbents and entrants result from different combinations of copper and fibre wholesale access charges. We first...

This article examines three major changes which have been occuring in the telecommunications market: liberalization, leading to increased competition in services and equipment, the internationalization of the equipment market, and a rapidly changing industrial structure. The interrelationship...

Since the early 1980s the world market for telecommunications equipment has been undergoing substantial change. It is claimed that the telecommunications equipment industry is evolving from the old structure in which products were mainly produced for national markets - and if possible also sold...