Economie van infrastructuren

Availibility
TPM, building 31, Jaffalaan 5.
b-wing, 2nd floor half way through the hallway
Secretariat: Erika van Verseveld  (room c2.010: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday)
phone:       +31 15 278 4709,
fax             +31 15 278 7925

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Mission

The mission of the economics of Infrastructures Section is to make a substantial contribution to the design of efficient and effective governance structures for infrastructure industries (like ICT, energy, water, transport and logistics) at the interface of economics and technology. Therefore the section takes a multidisciplinary approach: its mission is pursued in close cooperation with allied research groups in the social and engineering sciences and with professionals in the industry. The section aims to be an international point of reference in its scientific field.

Conception of the Field
The EvI program focuses on the interactions among technologies, markets and policies in traditional and evolving new infrastructures. This includes examination of technology trajectories, market and industry structures, and government policies and regulations. Infrastructures are assessed in a dynamic context as distinct sectors of the economy, but with certain common characteristics. They are identified as providing essential public services, which significantly affect the efficiency of economies and the welfare of societies.

The criteria employed to classify different components of the economy as infrastructure are both widely variable and loosely applied. The EvI research program critically examines these criteria and their implications. It undertakes both theoretical and applied research, paying particular attention to market, network, externality and public good effects.

The infrastructure sectors receiving priority attention at present include the traditional ones of energy, transport and telecommunication, and the emerging area of information and knowledge infrastructures. 
The traditional infrastructure sectors are at various stages of fundamental structural reform. Research on these reforms and their implications is central to the EI program. 

With the rapid growth of the Internet and other electronic services, the 21st century economy already is being called an information, or knowledge economy. The public networks that allow electronic access to a core of information and communication services are rapidly becoming a pervasive, essential resource for industry, government and individuals. If this will be the new infrastructure for the new economy, its implications for economic and social development, and for public policy, need to be explored. The EvI Section is taking up that challenge.