West, some "natural monopoly" sectors will require continued regulation to protect consumers from monopoly abuses. This … paper focuses on three aspects of the design of regulatory policy in these countries: the appropriate sectors for regulation …

This paper examines the justifications, history, and practice of regulation in the US telecommunications sector. We … the history of regulation and antitrust intervention in the telecommunications sector. After discussing the impact of …

investigates the case of a large privatized firm subject to many policy constraints. The last steps of Telefonica's privatization … documented phenomenon both in this study and in the cross-country literature on privatization; e.g. political ends in … privatization, influence in appointments, golden shares) as the most visible part of such collusion. Liberalization and multi …

in privatization transactions despite some showcase transactions; fifth, regulation and competition have often been …Privatization became a central element of economic reforms in most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa during the 1990s …. Yet, empirical evidence regarding the impact of privatization remains scarce. Since the seminal work of CAMPBELL …

, this essentially represents a case of a public monopoly being turned over to the private sector, and regulation is … domestic airports.The latter evidence favors privatization of the Delhi Airport. We study the impact of foreign direct … of professionalization in their day to day operations. The study also discusses various models of privatization and …

We provide some existence results of stable pricings for natural monopoly as defined in the theory of contestable …