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Gerhard Illing

Gerhard Illing is Professor of Economics at the University of Munich. He is the coeditor of Spectrum Auctions and Competition in Telecommunications (MIT Press, 2004).

Titles by This Editor

Industrial Organization and the Digital Economy

Edited by Gerhard Illing and Martin Peitz

Spectrum Auctions and Competition in Telecommunications

Edited by Gerhard Illing and Ulrich Klüh

In 2000 and 2001, several European countries carried out auctions for third generation technologies or universal mobile telephone services (UMTS) communication licenses. These "spectrum auctions" inaugurated yet another era in an industry that has already been transformed by a combination of staggering technological innovation and substantial regulatory change. Because of their spectacular but often puzzling outcomes, these spectrum auctions attracted enormous attention and invited new research on the interplay of auctions, industry dynamics, and regulation.