AØKA08080U Telecommunications Economics

Volume 2015/2016
Education

Elective from the 2.year of BSc in Economics
Elective at MSc in Economics

Content

Supply and demand of telecommunication services: Fixed and mobile telephony, Internet, Cable TV, satellites etc. Prices, cost and investments. Business structure (vertical and horizontal mergers, globalisation). Regulatory policy. Interconnection and competition in the sector. Prices for interconnect. LRAIC models. UMTS auctions. Telecommunication policy and relationships between the telecommunication sector, the rest of the economy and the general society. Development for the Internet, E-trade, the broadband society etc. Relationships with IT and media.

Learning Outcome

To obtain the highest grades in the assessments of examination in 'Tele¬communications Economics' the following general criteria shall be met:

The student shall

  • demonstrate knowledge of all relevant concepts and factual items regarding the questions raised and of the relationships be¬tween these
  • be able to design an analysis to give a thoroughly description of the problem and find possible solutions to the questions raised
  • give a survey of the relevant economic issues regarding the que¬stions raised
  • explain constraints and uncertainties in the presented solutions, often in the form of trade-offs between different objectives.

As more concrete criteria - depending on the actual questions raised in the examination - the following shall be demonstrated:

Knowledge of

  • the main trends and relationships in the ICT sectors (ICT=Information and Communication Technology) regarding de¬mand, supply, prices, market players, technical solutions, regulation etc.
  • the main economic and technical concepts and items used in the ICT sectors, especially for telecommunication, the Internet and supply of radio and TV channels.


The minimum criteria for passing the examination.

The student shall demonstrate knowledge of

  • the most important concepts and factual items that are relevant for answering the questions raised 
  • the most relevant trends and relationships in the ICT sectors
  • the possibilities and limitations of the use of relevant economic analy¬ses

Acceptance of a limited amount of small and medium failures in the analysis presented, but normally no major failures can be accepted

Syllabus (Draft)

 

Spulber and Yoo: "Networks in Telecommunications". Cambridge, University Press, 2009. Page 13 – 151. 139 pages. http:/​/​ep.fjernadgang.kb.dk/​login?url=http:/​/​dx.doi.org/​10.1017/​CBO9780511811883 (use the link ‘read pdf’)

Kelly and Rossotto: "Broadband Strategies Handbook". The World Bank and infoDev, 2012. Page 1 – 87 and 195 – 243. Total 136 pages.

http:/​/​broadbandtoolkit.org/​Custom/​Core/​Documents/​Broadband%20Strategies%20Handbook.pdf

Blackman and Srivastava: "Telecommunications Regulation Handbook – Tenth Anniversary Edition!". The World Bank and infoDev, 2011. Ch. 1 + 2 (page 3 – 59), section 3.4.1 (page 66), section 3.4.6 (page 72-75), section 3.7.2 (page 85-86), section 3.8 (page 86-89), ch. 4.1 - 4.4 (page 93 – 107), ch. 4.6 (111 – 115), and ch. 5 -7 (page 119 – 223). Total 192 pages.

http:/​/​www.infodev.org/​en/​Publication.1057.html

In addition to this a number of Articles which can be seen on the website of the course.

 

In total: 839 pages.

Schedule:

The course consists of 2 hours of classes (lectures) every week and 2x2 hours every second week for 14 weeks.

For enrolled students please find more information of courses, schedule, rules etc at
https:/​/​intranet.ku.dk/​economics_ma/​courses/​Pages/​default.aspx

Timetable and classroom:
For time and classroom please press the link under "Se skema" (See schedule) at the right side of this page (15E means 2015 Efterår (Autumn))
  • Category
  • Hours
  • Exam
  • 3
  • Lectures
  • 42
  • Preparation
  • 161
  • Total
  • 206
Credit
7,5 ECTS
Type of assessment
Written examination, 3 hours under invigilation
Individual written closed book exam at the computers of Copenhagen University
Aid
Without aids
Marking scale
7-point grading scale
Censorship form
External censorship
20 % censorship
Exam period

The exam takes place 18 December 2015 at Peter Bangs Vej 36. 2000 Frederiksberg http:/​/​pc-eksamen.ku.dk/​pc_exam

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

Re-exam

Same as the ordinary exam. But if only a few students have registered for the re-exam, the exam might change to an oral exam. This means that the examination date also will change.

 

Criteria for exam assesment

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