AØKK08058U Seminar: Telecommunications Economics CANCELED

Volume 2015/2016
Education

M.Sc. of Economics
The seminar is primarily for students at the MSc of Economics

Content

To give the participants an extended understanding of the national and global development of the ICT sectors (telecommunications, the Internet, media and IT) and an understanding of the economic relationships that are relevant for that development. Regulatory issues are part of that.

Learning Outcome

Headlines to be used as inspiration for decisions of the different topics for the memorandums. Suggestions from the participants are also welcome:

  • Trends and economic relationships for demand and supply in the ICT sectors (telecommunications, the Internet, media and IT).
  • Regulation – sector specific regulation and competition legislation.
  • Cost models, cost concepts and tests used in regulatory governance (LRAIC, fully allocated cost, bundle tests, predatory pricing etc.).
  • Prices.
  • Investments.
  • EU’s governance of the ICT sectors.
  • Universal Service Obligations.
  • Interconnection: Payment or “peering”.
  • Fixed and mobile telephony: Complementary or substitution?
  • Governance of the Internet. Network neutrality.
  • Broadband access.
  • Cable TV and OTT players.
  • Mobile telephony, wireless broadband access and roaming.
  • E-commerce.
  • Mergers, acquisitions, industrial structure and globalisation.
  • Influence on society and economic growth.
  • Auctions regarding mobile licenses.

The syllabus for the course in Telecommunications Economics.

As introduction: See Blackman and Srivastava: “Telecommunications Regulation Handbook – Tenth Anniversary Edition!”. The World Bank and infoDev, 2011.

It is an advantage – but not a requirement - that the participants have followed the course in Telecommunications Economics.
A planning meeting will be held in the beginning of the semester. Each participant writes a memorandum of a chosen topic as suggested above (approx. 12 pages). This memorandum is then discussed in the whole group for 2x45 minutes, guided by opponents. Each student will write a memorandum and become opponent two times during the seminar plus participate in the general discussions.

Planning meeting: 11.02.2016 at 15.15 – 17.00.
A plan for the seminar (who is writing about what topic, and who will be opponents to which topics – two opponents per memorandum) will be made at a start-up meeting for the seminar.

The seminar will be organized as two times 2 hours sessions per week in week 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19 (depending o the numbers of participants). In week 18 one of the sessions might be 4 hours. The two times 2 hours sessions will take place Mondays from 16.05 – 17.50 and Wednesdays from 16.05 – 17.50 (an adjustment of these times can be made at the start-up meeting, if there is an agreement about it among the participants).

In each session a memorandum from one of the participants will be discussed. Opponents are especially preparing this, but all participants are expected to be active.
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Exam
  • 1
  • Preparation
  • 175
  • Seminar
  • 30
  • Total
  • 206
Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written assignment
Oral examination, 3 hours under invigilation
A written seminar paper and a oral presentation for the others participans at the seminar. The presentation and discussion is app. 2 hours and 45 minut.
Exam registration requirements

Attendance on the seminar. The mandatory commitment paper and seminar paper have been handed in at deadline.

Aid

Al aids for the written seminarpaper (memorandum).

The memorandum for the oral presentation.

Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
External censorship
up to 20 % censorship at the seminarpaper
Exam period

Deadline commitmentpaper: Marts 1 2016

Deadline final paper: 1 week before the presentationmeetings

Presentationsmetings: Monday and Wednesday in week 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 19, 16-18 o´clock. 

For enrolled students more information about examination, exam/re-sit, rules etc. is available at the student intranet for Examination (English) and student intranet for Examination (KA-Danish).

Re-exam

Submission of a written assignmetn and an oral exam in which you may be examined in the presentations of the other students participating in the seminar during the enrolment period in question.

Criteria for exam assesment

The student must in a satisfactory way demonstrate that he/she has mastered the learning outcome of the course.