Regulating Utilities and Promoting Competition continues the series of annual books, published in association with the … Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School, which critically review the state of utility regulation and … competition policy …

-Charles Rochet and Jean Tirole (2003), 'Platform Competition in Two-Sided Markets', Journal of the European Economic Association, 1 … (4), June, 990-1029 -- Bernard Caillaud and Bruno Jullien (2003), 'Chicken and Egg: Competition among Intermediation … Service Providers', RAND Journal of Economics, 34 (2), Summer, 309-28 -- Mark Armstrong (2006), 'Competition in Two …

Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network …

performance -- 5. Better regulation and impact assessment in the European Commission -- 6. The evolution and development of …Better state regulation is a key component of economic reform. This is the first book to comprehensively explore … route to better regulation with varying degrees of success. The book includes contributions from leading experts on …

, privatization or re-regulation. This affects all traditional infrastructure sectors including communications, energy, transport and … water. This study highlights and illustrates some of the major challenges for readjusting the governance of network …

provide tools for better understanding changes in the approach to regulation, the reform of public utilities, and the complex … sectors and identifying critical flaws in prevailing views on regulation. Deeply rooted in sector analysis, the book conveys a …