Postdoctoral fellowship

Completed

Fossil Fuels: Oil Gas and Coal(Oil and Gas, Other oil and gas)
Not Energy Related
Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electricity transmission and distribution)
Other Cross-Cutting Technologies or Research(Environmental, social and economic impacts)

Basic and strategic applied research

SOCIAL SCIENCES (Economics and Econometrics)
SOCIAL SCIENCES (Politics and International Studies)
PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND MATHEMATICS (Computer Science and Informatics)

Not Cross-cutting
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Policy and regulation)
Sociological economical and environmental impact of energy (Other sociological economical and environmental impact of energy)

Dr Tzavara
Economics
University of Surrey

Standard

ESRC

01 October 2002

14 September 2003

11 months

£26,578

No relevance to Underpinning Sectors

South East

ESRC Oil

Dr Tzavara, Economics, University of Surrey

Objectives not supplied

Questions of access to and rollout of networks are important areas of regulation activity. The obvious example is telecommunications but rail, post, gas and electricity all provide other relevant settings. This post-doctoral fellowship aims to examine two broad questions relating to these issues: What factors affect the dynamics of network roll-out? and What role is played by bargaining over access prices in determining roll-out levels? To examine these issues, the fellows workwill draw on existing literature on network regulation (as surveyed in Armstrong 2002). It will also be interesting to consider other ways in which networks can cover their markets, including the possibility of spectrum trading. This work will require skills in computer programming (for purposes of simulation), dynamic programming and bargaining theory. Thus, an initial part of the fellowship will be spent developing skills in these areas, before moving on to apply them to the matters above

27/10/11