In the last decade or so, the EU has adopted a number of legislation aimed at liberalising network industries and … liberalisation and the nature of market performance in a group of European network industries – namely, electricity, gas, rail … for each industry in EU-15. To determine the impact of market opening on performance in network industries, we will …

In the last decade or so, the EU has adopted a number of legislation aimed at liberalising network industries and … liberalisation and the nature of market performance in a group of European network industries – namely, electricity, gas, rail … for each industry in EU-15. To determine the impact of market opening on performance in network industries, we will …

Successful network utility privatisation requires incentive-based regulation that allows investment to be adequately … utility, with a ranking telecoms, gas, electricity, water and last, rail. There are doubts whether privatising rail deliver … consumer prices for telecoms, gas and electricity fell in the UK, overcoming most opposition to privatisation. …

the telecommunication network for the entire geographical region. This necessarily incur cost due to the electricity bill … consider subsidizing the electricity bill of smaller players to help them break even in the utility cost segment. Overall, help … is needed for smaller players in the telecommunication market to pay for the electricity bill needed to build a network …

Unbundling of vertically integrated utilities has become an integral element in the regulation of network industries … effects is still lacking. In this paper we study the effect of legal unbundling on grid charges in the German electricity … able to identify heterogeneous effects of legal unbundling for different types of price regulation, because we observe a …

important in particular for the electricity industry where private firms invest into generation facilities, while network …Liberalization of network industries frequently separates the network from the other parts of the industry. This is …