A PhD research fellowship is offered within the area of Tele-economics at the Department of Telematics at the Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering (IME), the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The department has approximately 50 PhD students and is currently involved in a national centre of Excellence (Q2S), National research programs, EU Network of Excellences and EU research projects.
The research focus of this PhD position is on ICT service markets modeling. The increased use of ICT and ICT services has lead to a more complex market structure, with a number of actors providing value to ICT services by using a variety of business models, many of which are based on positive network externalities, extreme (exponential) growth, and aiming at market monopoly.
In this context there is a need to better understand how ICT services influence the dynamics of the marketplace, the versatility and lifetime of products, pricing of services and networks, impact of network economics and social groups, and valuation of assets. Examples of topics that should be studied include:
- Mathematical models for markets with and without feedback.
- Advanced models for telecommunications markets, including the dynamics of oligopolies, development of monopolies in oligopolisitc markets, evolution of trends, effects of lock-in, impact of regulation, churning (time-based and stochastic),
- Simulations of telecommunications markets using discrete-event simulations and market agents.
PhD research fellowship in Tele-economics
