The Routledge Companion to Network Industries

ISBN-13: 9781138782822 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 424 str.

Matthias Finger; Christian Jaag

Opis

In recent decades, network industries around the world have gone through periods of de- and re-regulation with vast amounts of sometimes conflicting research carried out into specific network industries. This comprehensive resource provides an orientation for academics, policy makers and managers as to the main economic, regulatory and commercial challenges in the network industries over the next period, whilst covering all of the key network industries, including energy, transport, water, telecommunications.

Spis treści

1. Introduction Part I: The market and industry perspective 2. Telecommunication networks: Technology and market development 3. Postal sector development between digitization and regulation 4. New developments in electricity markets following large-scale integration of renewable energy 5 Natural gas: A tale of three markets 6. Current trends in the global maritime transport sector 7. The evolving global railway industry 8. The evolving global air transport industry 9. Urban public transport 10. The evolving global water industry Part II: The policy and regulatory perspective 11. Electronic communications policy and regulation in Europe 12. Policy and regulations in the postal sector 13. The future of electricity network regulation: The policy perspective 14. The construction of a European gas market: Network investment under virtual trading 15. Policy and regulatory perspectives on shipping 16. European rail policy and regulation 17. Policy and regulation of air transport: The European experience 18. Local public transport 19. Economic regulation of water utilities: The US framework Part III: The strategy and management perspective 20. Innovative and disruptive effects of the Internet on strategy in the communications and media markets 21. Governance and strategies in the postal sector 22. Electricity distribution utilities and the future: More than just wires 23. Strategic challenges in the natural gas market 24. Maritime transport company strategies: How to be sustainable in the future 25. Developments in the European railway sector: Challenges for railway service providers 26. Airport structure, strategy and performance: A review 27. Strategic challenges in urban transport 28. Innovation and public management: Comparing dynamic capabilities in two Swiss wastewater utilities 29. Conclusion

O autorze

Matthias Finger holds the Swiss Post Chair in Management of Network Industries at EPFL, Switzerland. He is also the Director of the Florence School of Regulation's Transport Area in Florence, Italy.

Christian Jaag is Managing Partner at Swiss Economics and Lecturer in Economics at the Universities of St Gallen and Zürich as well as at EPFL, Switzerland.