Network industry

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As network industries (also infrastructure industries or network management ) are collectively the economic activities referred to services based on an elaborate infrastructure provide. Examples are the telecommunications industry , sewage and water management , large parts of the energy industry such as the electricity or gas industry , but also parts of the transport industry such as railways , ports and aviation . Network industries are characterized by high entry costs for building the network infrastructure and thus often natural monopolies . Accordingly, they are usually subject to a high degree of government regulation . Network industries are of great economic importance. In 1999, the telecommunications, transport, energy and post sectors had a share of around 6% of the gross national product of the European Union .

See also

literature

  • Rudolf Hofer: Developments in the “Network Industry Road” . KPM-Verlag, Bern 2010, ISBN 978-3-906798-37-0 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Finger: De- and re-regulation of the network industries: Where is the journey going? (=  CDM Working Papers Series . MIR-REPORT-2006-005). June 2006 ( infoscience.epfl.ch [PDF; accessed on March 19, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Network Industries . (No longer available online.) In: wzb.eu. Science Center Berlin for Social Research, archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; Retrieved March 19, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Network Industry . In: finanz-lexikon.de. Retrieved March 19, 2016 .
  4. ^ Ruedi Hofer: Network Industry Street. Developments and challenges for the entertainment industry. (PDF) In: sistra.ch. November 20, 2014, accessed March 19, 2016 .
  5. ^ A b Lars-Hendrik Röller, Oliver Stehmann: Limits of competition policy in opening up network industries . In: Perspectives of Economic Policy . tape 7 , no. 3 . de Gruyter, 2006, ISSN  1465-6493 , p. 355–372 , doi : 10.1111 / j.1468-2516.2006.00216.x ( ec.europa.eu [PDF; accessed on March 19, 2016]).