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Overview

Matthias Finger is affiliated with the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland. Their research spans several key fields, primarily within Engineering and Business, Management and Accounting. The subfields of study related to their work include Strategy and Management, Media Technology, General Energy, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, and Economics and Econometrics.

The main topics of their research cover a diverse range of areas: ICT Impact and Policies, Digital Platforms and Economics, Transport and Economic Policies, Global Energy Security and Policy, Aviation Industry Analysis and Trends, Merger and Competition Analysis, and Air Traffic Management and Optimization.

Recent selected publications demonstrate the scope of Matthias Finger's research interests and contributions. These include:

  • "A conceptual construct on value for infrastructure asset management", 2022, Utilities Policy
  • "Regulating digital platforms as the new network industries", 2021, Competition and Regulation in Network Industries
  • "The energy-mobility system in transition: The case of the Swiss Federal Railways", 2020, Competition and Regulation in Network Industries
  • "Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs): a countermeasure to Anti-Money Laundering (AML) challenges posed by cryptocurrencies?", 2025, Digital Finance
  • "Digitalizing infrastructure, digital platforms and public services", 2023, Competition and Regulation in Network Industries

Matthias Finger has collaborated frequently with the following co-authors:

  • Juan José Montero Pascual
  • Teodora Serafimova
  • Paul Adrianus van Baal
  • Juan J. Montero-Pascual
  • N. Almeida

Their work has appeared predominantly in the journal Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, with six publications. Other venues include Cadmus - EUI Research Repository (European University Institute), Utilities Policy, Digital Finance, and Корпоративное управление и инновационное развитие экономики Севера.

Matthias Finger is also the author of a book titled Beziehungen unter Strom. Die Schweiz, die Elektrizität und die Europäische Union, published in 2020 by Chronos Verlag eBooks.

Best Publications

  • Environmental NGOs in World Politics: Linking the Local and the Global

    Matthias Finger;Thomas Princen

  • From Knowledge to Action? Exploring the Relationships Between Environmental Experiences, Learning, and Behavior

    Matthias Finger

  • Adult Education at the Crossroads: Learning our way out

    Matthias Finger;Jose Manuel Asun

  • The Earth Brokers: Power, Politics and World Development

    Pratap Chatterjee;Matthias Finger

  • The crisis of global environmental governance : towards a new political economy of sustainability

    Jacob Park;Ken Conca;Ken Conca;Matthias Finger

  • The quest for coherence between institutions and technologies in infrastructures

    Matthias Finger;John Groenewegen;Rolf Künneke

  • The Concept of the ‘Learning Organization’ Applied to the Transformation of the Public Sector: Conceptual Contributions for Theory Development

    Matthias Finger;Silvia Bürgin Brand

  • New Social Movements and their Implications for Adult Education

    Matthias Finger

  • From e-government to e-governance? Towards a model of e-governance

    Matthias Finger;Gaëlle Pécoud

  • “Mobile” e-government options: between technology-driven and user centric

    Matthias Finger;Pierre Rossel;Gianluca Misuraca

  • Water Privatisation: Trans-National Corporations and the Re-Regulation of the Water Industry

    Matthias Finger;Jeremy Allouche

  • The Concept of the “Learning Organization” Applied to the Transformation of the Public Sector.

    Matthias Finger;Silvia Bürgin Brand

  • Conceptualizing e-Governance

    Pierre Rossel;Matthias Finger

  • Learning our way out: A conceptual framework for social-environmental learning

    Matthias Finger;Philomene Verlaan

  • The multi-governance of water : four case studies

    Matthias Finger;Ludivine Tamiotti;Jeremy Allouche

  • The development of Mobility-as-a-Service in the Helsinki metropolitan area: A multi-level governance analysis

    Maxime Audouin;Matthias Finger

  • Limits to Privatization: How to Avoid Too Much of a Good Thing - A Report to the Club of Rome

    Ernst U. von Weizsäcker;Oran R. Young;Matthias Finger;Marianne Beisheim

  • Learning Our Way Out: Adult Education at a Crossroads

    Matthias Finger;José Asún

  • Smart Governance for Smart Cities

    Mohamad Razaghi;Matthias Finger

  • Governance of competition and performance in European railways: An analysis of five cases

    Matthias Finger

  • A post-2020 EU energy technology policy: Revisiting the strategic energy technology plan

    Sophia Ruester;Sebastian Schwenen;Matthias Finger;Jean-Michel Glachant

  • The Military, the Nation-State and the Environment

    Matthias Finger

  • Delegation in the Regulatory State. Independent regulatory Agencies in Western Europe

    Matthias Finger

  • Adult Education at the Crossroads: Learning Our Way Out. Global Perspectives on Adult Education and Training.

    Matthias Finger;Jose Manuel Asun

  • Secteur de l'eau en France: une remise en question du modèle de gestion déléguée Water Privatisation: Trans-National Corporations and the Re-Regulation of the Water Industry

    Matthias Finger;Jeremy Allouche

  • Conceptualizing e-governance

    Matthias Finger

  • Multi-Governance of Water, The: Four Case Studies

    Matthias Finger;Ludivine Tamiotti;Jeremy Allouche

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal Sciarini
Pascal Sciarini University of Geneva
Oran R. Young
Oran R. Young University of California, Santa Barbara
Frédéric Varone
Frédéric Varone University of Geneva
François Maréchal
François Maréchal École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Eike Brunner
Eike Brunner TU Dresden
Luis Araujo
Luis Araujo University of Manchester
Simon Hug
Simon Hug University of Geneva

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