Privatisation of Network Industries in Germany – The complementary role of entry-deregulation and monopolistic bottleneck-regulation, presented at CESifo

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the impact of market oriented institu-tional reforms in German network industries. A disaggregated approach is cho-sen, which differentiates between network services, infrastructure management and network infrastructure. The gradual opening of network service provision has already had a positive impact on the performance of all markets for network services. Nevertheless, harmonisation and integration of infrastructure manage-ment as well as an adequate regulation of access to the non-competitive infra-structures (monopolistic bottlenecks) is necessary in order to exploit the full benefits of liberalisation and privatisation of network service markets