The paper provides a critical review of the three essays originally presented at the 49th Annual Conference of the SIE by U. Colombino, C. De Vincenti and R. Paladini, and E. Longobardi. The aim of this comment-essay is to further enlarge their theoretical perspective and their policy...

The paper explores the cost-benefit of the separation of the function of managing networks and plants activities from the function of providing the final service to users for a public utility organised as a local natural monopoly. The article analyses in particular the problem of investment...

In many European countries the electricity sector regulation imposes the constraint of the uniform tariff for all the national territory, independently from the territorial distribution of the costs of supplying the service. In this paper the effects of uniformity constraints are theoretically...

<i> Esternalità, capitale umano e politiche per l’istruzione </i> (di Alessandro Balestrino, Alessandro Petretto) - ABSTRACT: In this paper we discuss the interaction between optimal linear income taxation and education policy. Education is characterised as a mixed investment good: it has both...