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Seminar “Coporate Governance”
Vom 7. bis 9. März 2008 haben wir uns in der Europäischen Akademie in Berlin getroffen, um uns zusammen mit hochkarätigen Referenten aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik über die liberalen Positionen zum Thema “Corporate Governance” zu verständigen. Die Fotos von dem Seminar findet ihr – wer hätte es gedacht – unter “Fotos”, die Materialien und Positionspapiere haben wir im internen Bereich onlinegestellt.
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European Economic Integration
Arnim Emrich et al. (November 2005)
The Lisbon strategy adopted by the EU in 2000 aims at the transition of the European Community into the most dynamic and most competitive knowledge economy in the world 2010. This is to enhance and secure its ability to realize a high level of prosperity in the long term. The key aspect of the strategy is the development of the internal market- a space which free and unadulterated competition is guaranteed. The objective is to create a level playing field for European companies. However, little progress toward this objective has been made in recent years, which has had a negative effect on the credibility of the Lisbon strategy. To get the strategy underway, it is felt that on a European level the most important issue is elimination of the remaining obstacles that impede the functioning of the internal market.
Die Liberalisierung des schwedischen Eisenbahnwesens – Ein Beispiel vertikaler Trennung von Netz und Transportbetrieb
Rico Merkert (August 2005)
The paper focuses mainly on reviewing and analysing the benefits and threats of vertically separating railway infrastructure from transport operations. After a brief theoretical introduction and a short overview of the railway system in Sweden, the main reasons behind the Swedish railway reform and its key milestones are presented. Among several deregulation measures, by far the most important step was the disintegration of the infrastructure manager (Banverket) from the train operating company (Statens Järnvägar) in 1988. Since the railway infrastructure in Sweden is vertically separated, it seems to be easier for competitors to get access to essential facilities than in other European countries. This may explain the increasing competition between the Swedish train operating companies. There are, on the other hand, theoretical concerns regarding the issue that vertical separation may jeopardise safety, create problems when timetables are to be set together and lead to deteriorating infrastructure quality or higher transaction costs. In the Swedish case competition and efficiency have increased substantially, and recent data proves that most of the theoretical threats of vertical separation and deregulation did not appear.