In this work we demonstrate the effects of different Chinese transport infrastructure investment strategies on long run marginal costs of steam coal supply in Europe. Increasing Chinese demand for steam coal will lead to a growing need for additional domestic infrastructure in China as...

What is a good balance between competition and coordination in network industries? Network unbundling aims to promote competition, but this has to be balanced against the downside of unbundling: firm-internal coordination falls away and must be replaced by external market mechanisms. This is a...

Ulrich Buller und Holger Hanselka, Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, unterstreichen in ihrem Beitrag, dass im Sinne der zukünftigen »Art of Mobility« die gesamte Breite der motorisierten Fahrzeuge, vom Elektrofahrrad über das Elektroauto bis hin zum schweren Nutzfahrzeug, betrachtet werden muss....

The United Kingdom (UK) has spent less on infrastructure compared to other OECD countries over the past three decades. The perceived quality of UK infrastructure assets is close to the OECD average but lower than in other G7 countries. Capacity constraints have emerged in some sectors, such as...

What is a good balance between competition and coordination in network industries? Network unbundling aims to promote competition, but this has to be balanced against the downside of unbundling: firm-internal coordination falls away and must be replaced by external market mechanisms. This is a...

German Abstract: Auf der Grundlage der methodologischen Herangehensweise von Haucap/Heimeshoff/Uhde (2007) und Russel Pitmann (2002) sollte im Folgenden die Frage der vertikalen Entflechtung des russischen Gassektors behandelt werden, der durch das Unternehmen Gazprom monopolisiert wird. Demnach...

Raising living standards continues to be the main challenge facing Guatemala, as a matter of economic success and social cohesion. This paper discusses the spending, financing, and delivery capacity aspects of a viable development strategy for Guatemala couched within the United Nations...

The last weeks of 2018 have set new records in net new institutional investment flows into infrastructure funds, with more generalist private equity and investment management players joining this strategic asset class par excellence, as the trend is likely to continue well into 2019 – 2020.The...

Following a benchmarking exercise, we estimate the spending required to reach satisfactory progress in the Sustainable Development Goals in the health, education, and infrastructure sectors in Brazil. We find that there is room for savings in education (up to 1.5 percentage point of GDP) and...