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RESEARCH PARTNERS Jacobs University Bremen Bremer Energie Institut Contact: Gert Brunekreeft (project leader) Jacobs University Bremen is a highly selective, private institution for the advancement of education and research. Its academic programs and cultural environment prepare graduates for international leadership and global citizenship. Having an interdisciplinary research focus, Jacobs University currently enrols about 1100 students from 91 countries. The BEI is, with a background in engineering and economics, a transdisciplinary research institute in energy-policy related issues. Research at BEI is both policy consult and academic. The BEI cooperates closely with both Jacobs University Bremen and the University of Bremen. The research foci are currently on energy efficiency (including energy saving and fuel efficiency) on the one hand and economic policy for energy markets on the other hand. Gert Brunekreeft is president of Bremer Energie Institut and holds a chair for energy economics at Jacobs University. He has a background in energy economics, both academically and practically, and has experience in academia and the industry in Germany, Netherlands and the UK. He has worked and published widely on issues in the regulation of energy networks, competition in energy markets and the theory and practice of vertical relations, which includes unbundling. Vienna University of Economics and Business Research Institute for Regulatory Economics Contact: Stefan Bogner The Institute for Regulatory Economics is a think tank founded in 2005 with the medium term goal of building up knowledge on the interplay between competition and the need to regulate. Faculty and graduate student research will mainly focus on network based - energy supplying industries. Academics with a national and international background work together in an interdisciplinary approach to achieve progress in the fields of productivity measurement in regulated industries, the relationship between regulation and quality and the aspects of finance. Stefan Bogner is full professor at the institute of corporate finance and head of the Research Institute for Regulatory Economics. His research interest, among others, are Investment decisions in incomplete markets, risk and cost of capital for regulated utilities. University of Tilburg Tilburg Law and Economics Center Contact: Pierre Larouche The Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) is a joint research center created in 2002 by the Faculties of Economics and Business Administration (FEB) and of Law (FRW) of Tilburg University. It regroups some 35 researchers drawn from both faculties. TILEC aims to belong to the top in Europe and to be recognized as a leading centre in its areas of activity also in the US. TILEC focuses on two main research areas: (1) Institutions, competition and regulation, and (2) Law and Finance (Corporate governance and financial market regulation). More specifically, the first line of research covers a broad spectrum of key issues in the governance of product and service markets, from an inter-disciplinary perspective. This line includes research on energy. Current issues include the legal unbundling of the energy sector pursuant to the latest set of EC Directives, the intervention of regulatory authorities to mitigate market power via compulsory sale contracts, security of supply in a liberalized environment, the application of competition law to the energy sector, as well as the trade-offs involved in intraday versus daily balancing in the gas system. Pierre Larouche is full professor at the faculty of law and has research experience in particular European and Competition law. Ruhr-Universität Bochum Institute for Energy and Mining Law Contact: Johann-Christian Pielow The Institute for Energy and Mining Law is an independent research institution of the Ruhr-University Bochum. Since its foundation in 1987 it continued to extend its role as an important expert institution in the field of German, European and international energy and mining law. The central objective of the Institute activities is the cultivation of the closely interconnected fields of energy and mining law including their relations to the legal disciplines such as constitutional and administrative law as well as commercial, company and competition law. The Ruhr area is an important energy region with a number of prospering undertakings acting in this field which ideally favours the transfer of knowledge between academia and practice. Dr. Joh.-Christian Pielow is professor for "Economic Law" at the Faculty of Economic science at the University and currently manages the Institute for Energy and Mining Law. His research activities focus on European, German and Comparative Economic Constitutional and Administrative Law, especially in regard to public services and "network-bound" infrastructures like energy industries and railway transport; furthermore: on Environmental Law, Local Administrative Law and the Organization of the Federal State. In the field of energy law Prof. Pielow published mainly on the liberalization of this industry sector, especially on specific topics of the energy network regulation, as well as on environmental law related issues of the energy sector. Delft University of Technology Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management Section Economics of Infrastructures Contact: Rolf W. Künneke The Economics of Infrastructures Program is part of the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology, the oldest and biggest technical university of The Netherlands. The Economics of Infrastructures Program, established in 1997, focuses on the design of efficient institutional arrangements for various infrastructures, including electricity, natural gas, ICT, water, and transport. Infrastructures are perceived as complex socio-technical systems, in which institutions and technologies are closely related to each other. Hence, the approach is strongly multidisciplinary, and addresses the various interrelations between economics, policy, and technology. Against this background the research agenda of this program addresses issues like industrial organization, public and private ordering, regulatory arrangements, and public policy. Next to research activities, the program is also involved in various teaching related activities at all academic levels (bachelors, masters, PHD, and post graduate). Rolf Künneke is associate professor for Economics of Infrastructures and manages the program. He is an economist by training and has a strong background in the restructuring of the electricity industry, starting in 1984 with the initiation of his PHD thesis on the privatization of Dutch and US American energy companies. Since then, he had many publications on privatization, liberalization and deregulation especially in the field of electricity. His recent research activities include the analysis of the Dutch process of ownership unbundling of electricity distribution companies; institutional reform, regulation and privatization of infrastructure industries; and the need for coherence between institutions and technologies in infrastructure industries.	Research Partners: