Discussion Papers

The notification and reporting obligations in the German postal market have remained largely unchanged since 1998. For an amendment of the Postal Act,…

German electricity networks are subject to efficiency benchmarking. Against the back-ground of the development towards smart grids, this study…

WIK’s new discussion paper provides an inventory of innovative city logistics concepts in Germany that involve parcel operators and identifies best…

Blockchain technology may be applied in the telecommunications and energy market, but there remain questions to be answered

Can Broadband Internet via satellite be an alternative to fixed and mobile network Internet access technologies in Germany?

The generation of new 5G services requires a further roll-out of existing network infrastructures and an increasing density of transmitters and sites…

Empirical analysis for the period between 2011 and 2017 reveals a complex interplay between HFC- and FTTx-roll-out. Overall, our results suggest that…

More and more consumers use voice assistants. But their adoption raises new challenges for policymakers and regulators. Our discussion paper No. 441…

WhatsApp and similar services are now part of the EECC. We summaries the essential characteristics of these services, their impact and business models…

E-retailers and consumers in Germany benefit from European e-commerce

Many suppliers of bundled products are vertically integrated and active at several levels of the value chain. What are the competitive effects of new…

Consumers don’t want interoperability for WhatsApp and similar services