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Participants:
Research
Objectives:
The
network will undertake research on the evolution of market structure in
European ‘network industries’ such as telecommunications, energy,
air transportation, rail, and water. These industries have emerged as a
key European policy issue, yet there is little or no research
collaboration at the EU level. This network will address this need
through a comprehensive programme of research and training, involving
eight leading institutions in six EU countries.
The
research addresses three important issues:
·
Competition
and Regulation amongst Existing Networks, focusing on market structure
in existing network industries and how new structures might evolve;
·
Investment
in New Networks, focusing on the role of infrastructure in economic
performance, the processes by which infrastructure is created, and the
optimal providers of such infrastructure;
·
Networks
and Geography: exploiting methodological similarities between two
disparate fields: economic geography and network industries
The
network aims to train a new generation of researchers and to achieve
scientific advances on topics such as the optimal mix between
competition policy and regulation and models of the political economy of
regulation.