Edited by Christian von Hirschhausen, Professor of Energy Economics and Public Sector Management, Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), and Research Director, DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research), Germany, Thorsten Beckers, Research Associate, Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy (WIP) and Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin) and Kay Mitusch, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany

• Contents: 1. Introduction Part I: Theoretical and Cross-Sectional Issues 2. Deregulation in Network Industries: A Policy in Search of a Rationale? 3. The Contestable Markets Theory: Efficient Advice for Economic Policy 4. Predatory Pricing in Liberalized Telecommunications Markets 5. Rating of Infrastructure Projects According to Basel II Part II: Infrastructure Policies in Germany: The Gradual Awakening 6. Private Participation in German Infrastructure Provision: Better Late than Never 7. Private Infrastructure Financing: The Case of Terminal Two at Munich Airport 8. Ex-ante vs. Ex-post Regulation in the German Railway Sector 9. Comparable Cost Calculation for Road and Rail Infrastructure 10. Innovations, Sustainability and Efficiency in the German Water Sector: How to Push the Tanker into the Right Direction? Part III: International Case Studies: The UK and Argentina 11. Private Financing of Transport Infrastructure: Some UK Experience 12. Argentina’s 1990s’ Utilities Privatization: Cure or Disease? Part IV: Sectoral Case Studies from the Electricity Sector 13. Governance Mechanisms for the Electricity Market in Argentina: Critical Analysis and International Comparison 14. Electricity Network Regulation: Practical Implementation in the Nordic Countries 15. Cross-subsidies in Russian Electric Power Tariffs: Not as Bad as their Reputation Index

'Germany has started late with the deregulation and privatization of its infrastructure networks. This volume helps to clear a pathway to new regimes for the provision and procurement of infrastructure networks to increase efficiency and fairness for the benefit of users and society alike.'

Edited by Christian von Hirschhausen, Professor of Energy Economics and Public Sector Management, Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), and Research Director, DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research), Germany, Thorsten Beckers, Research Associate, Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy (WIP) and Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin) and Kay Mitusch, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany

• Contents: 1. Introduction Part I: Theoretical and Cross-Sectional Issues 2. Deregulation in Network Industries: A Policy in Search of a Rationale? 3. The Contestable Markets Theory: Efficient Advice for Economic Policy 4. Predatory Pricing in Liberalized Telecommunications Markets 5. Rating of Infrastructure Projects According to Basel II Part II: Infrastructure Policies in Germany: The Gradual Awakening 6. Private Participation in German Infrastructure Provision: Better Late than Never 7. Private Infrastructure Financing: The Case of Terminal Two at Munich Airport 8. Ex-ante vs. Ex-post Regulation in the German Railway Sector 9. Comparable Cost Calculation for Road and Rail Infrastructure 10. Innovations, Sustainability and Efficiency in the German Water Sector: How to Push the Tanker into the Right Direction? Part III: International Case Studies: The UK and Argentina 11. Private Financing of Transport Infrastructure: Some UK Experience 12. Argentina’s 1990s’ Utilities Privatization: Cure or Disease? Part IV: Sectoral Case Studies from the Electricity Sector 13. Governance Mechanisms for the Electricity Market in Argentina: Critical Analysis and International Comparison 14. Electricity Network Regulation: Practical Implementation in the Nordic Countries 15. Cross-subsidies in Russian Electric Power Tariffs: Not as Bad as their Reputation Index

'Germany has started late with the deregulation and privatization of its infrastructure networks. This volume helps to clear a pathway to new regimes for the provision and procurement of infrastructure networks to increase efficiency and fairness for the benefit of users and society alike.'

Edited by Christian von Hirschhausen, Professor of Energy Economics and Public Sector Management, Dresden University of Technology (TU Dresden), and Research Director, DIW Berlin (German Institute for Economic Research), Germany, Thorsten Beckers, Research Associate, Workgroup for Infrastructure Policy (WIP) and Berlin University of Technology (TU Berlin) and Kay Mitusch, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Germany

• Contents: 1. Introduction Part I: Theoretical and Cross-Sectional Issues 2. Deregulation in Network Industries: A Policy in Search of a Rationale? 3. The Contestable Markets Theory: Efficient Advice for Economic Policy 4. Predatory Pricing in Liberalized Telecommunications Markets 5. Rating of Infrastructure Projects According to Basel II Part II: Infrastructure Policies in Germany: The Gradual Awakening 6. Private Participation in German Infrastructure Provision: Better Late than Never 7. Private Infrastructure Financing: The Case of Terminal Two at Munich Airport 8. Ex-ante vs. Ex-post Regulation in the German Railway Sector 9. Comparable Cost Calculation for Road and Rail Infrastructure 10. Innovations, Sustainability and Efficiency in the German Water Sector: How to Push the Tanker into the Right Direction? Part III: International Case Studies: The UK and Argentina 11. Private Financing of Transport Infrastructure: Some UK Experience 12. Argentina’s 1990s’ Utilities Privatization: Cure or Disease? Part IV: Sectoral Case Studies from the Electricity Sector 13. Governance Mechanisms for the Electricity Market in Argentina: Critical Analysis and International Comparison 14. Electricity Network Regulation: Practical Implementation in the Nordic Countries 15. Cross-subsidies in Russian Electric Power Tariffs: Not as Bad as their Reputation Index

'Germany has started late with the deregulation and privatization of its infrastructure networks. This volume helps to clear a pathway to new regimes for the provision and procurement of infrastructure networks to increase efficiency and fairness for the benefit of users and society alike.'