In parallel with liberalization, sector-specific regulation in network industries has become a widely discussed topic … on whether such regulation is necessary and if so what its optimal design should be. Some argue for complete deregulation …. Consequently, competition law and sector-specific regulation play complementary roles. In this paper, we present a general economic …

regulation and thus to regulatory institutions. The rationale for regulation is its positive effect on society by correcting … actors. We distinguish between direct and indirect costs of regulation: Direct costs occur in relation with the institutional … question regulation per se. We rather present a qualitative framework which helps to structure a discussion about regulatory …

to 50 grams and a regulatory cost allocation mechanism to ensure consistency of price regulation and the financing of the …