Publications

E.CA Economists publish regularly in academic journals, competition and regulation journals and the more popular business press. We speak frequently at conferences, workshops and symposiums.

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Presentations

Competitive assessment of price cycles in German retail gasoline markets

Bas Dessens, Hans W. Friederiszick, Dennis Beling, Presentation at the ACE Annual Conference, Bergen, Norway, November 2011

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Keywords: gasoline, price cycles
Papers & reports

Competition Law in Regulated Industries: On the Case and Scope for Intervention

Rainer Nitsche, Lars Wiethaus, Journal of European Competition Law & Practice 2012, doi: 10.1093/jeclap/lpr087.

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Keywords: regulation, telecommunication
Papers & reports

Comments on state aid reform: Some implications of an Effects-based approach.

Rainer Nitsche, In Conferences on New Political Economy, Vol. 24 : The More Economic Approach to European Competition Law, ed. D. Schmidtchen, M. Albert and Stefan Voigt, 321-344. Frankfurt a. M. : Mohr Siebeck.

Keywords: effects, state aid
E.CA Compact

Automatically renewable contracts hamper switching to competitors

On behalf of Ofcom, E.CA and Gregory Crawford empirically analysed the impact of BT’s automatically renewable contracts on customer switching behaviour between telecom providers. Accounting for a variety of confounding factors, including tenure, bundling, price discounts and self-selection into contracts, it was found that households on automatically renewable contracts switch 35% less often than comparable households on standard contracts. In light of these findings Ofcom decided to prohibit these contracts in the fixed-line voice and boradband sectors for residential and small-business customers.

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Keywords: switching, telecoms

Assessment of a sustainable Internet model for the near future

Hans W. Friederiszick, Jakub Kałuzny, Simone Kohnz, ESMT No. WP-11-01.

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Keywords: internet, net neutrality, regulation, white paper
Papers & reports

Assessment of a sustainable internet model for the near future

Lars-Hendrik Röller, ESMT No. BB–11–01.

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Keywords: business brief, internet, net neutrality, regulation
Presentations

Assessing Risk Sharing Proposals

Rainer Nitsche, ECTA Conference : Fibre Investment for Europe's Recovery, Brussels, June 2009

Keywords: NGA Regulation
E.CA Compact

Are EC State aid rules compatible with attracting airlines through rebates?

Operating an airport profitably means generating sufficient traffic to cover operation costs at a margin which allows recovering fixed costs in the long run. Thus, airports often incentivise the opening of new routes or the establishing of hub status by individual airlines through rebate schemes. State-owned airports face the challenge to self-assess whether those rebates are in compliance with EC State aid rules. This note illustrates a simple but robust technique for such a self-assessment.

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Keywords: rebates, state aid
Papers & reports

Are Anti-Predation Rules in the Public Interest?

Rainer Nitsche, CRA Competition Policy Discussion Paper 5, Charles River Associates Limited, September 2002

Keywords: anti-predation, competition, rules
Papers & reports

Analysing the Relationship Between Regulations and Investment in the Telecom Sector

Hans W. Friederiszick, Lars-Hendrik Röller, ESMT White Paper 2007.

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Keywords: investment, regulation, telecommunications