Introduction / Colin Robinson -- 1. Beyond regulation / Stephen Littlechild -- Comment / Colin Robinson -- 2. Ronald coase and the spectrum question / Thomas W. Hazlett -- Comment / Leonard Waverman -- 3. European energy liberalisation : progress and problems / Jorge Vasconcelos -- Comment /...

This paper reviews the extent to which OECD countries have opened the provision of publicly funded services to competition among public and private suppliers. The paper lays out an analytical framework identifying the inherent incentive and efficiency issues associated with the provision of...

1. Emerging from the crisis : the transformation of public service employment relations? / Stephen Bach and Lorenzo Bordogna -- 2. Greece : public service employment relations: adjustment and reforms / Christos A. Ioannou -- 3. Spain : rationalization without modernization: public service...