from others, and because they seek to influence the industry regulation. Properly organized fora establish an open …

The regulation of network industries has been profoundly transformed in the past twenty years. First, the “object of … regulation” is no longer the same. Network industries have been opened to new dynamics, which have overwhelmed their industrial … symptoms and causes of the crisis facing traditional representative democracy. In this chapter, we suggest that the regulation …

exclusive rights of use over information and on the self-regulation of on-line communities. Through a decentralized system of …

The aim of our paper is to determine the efficiency of the asymmetric regulation of the Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs … European Commission tend to question asymmetric regulation mechanisms. Based on a model designed to determine firm profits and … consumer surplus, our main results are as follows. The asymmetric regulation of the MTRs may contribute to an increase in …

The key role of institutions for economic performance has recently been acknowledged in the economic policy debate …. This paper aims at pointing out the main policy lessons and the recommendations to be drawn from New Institutional …

Motivated by policy events experienced during the last two decades by the European natural gas industry, this paper … policy implication that comes out of the empirical analysis is that, when combined with network expansion investments, gas …

assumptions on the way regulation is conducted. …

experience. We analyze the role of take-or-pay clauses and price indexation rules, questioning whether regulation distorts …