California disaster. Part of the explanation for these difficulties stems from past successful liberalization and deregulation … experiences in other areas suggesting that competition could provide large benefits to hitherto regulated utilities in local …

This paper investigates telecommunication operator investment in broadband infrastructure after local deregulation of … exploit regional differences in deregulation following a 2008 reform. Controlling for initial conditions, first …-difference estimates show that local deregulation increases local investment in infrastructure by both the incumbent and competitors. …

We test for the distributional effects of regulation and entry in the mobile telecommunications sector in a highly … mobile termination rate regulation. We find that regulation benefits consumers significantly more than entry does, and that …

, inequality is highly responsive to the increase in product market competition triggered by domestic regulatory reform. …

Launching and stimulating competition in telecommunications markets is an important policy goal. It contains two … elements: to encourage entry and to make competition effective such that consumers benefit. The first one requires that … difficult to achieve at the same time. In this paper, we consider price regulation in the retail and wholesale market and answer …

consider improvements to market design and regulation as these two energy markets become increasingly interlinked. …

This paper reports on ongoing research on the interactions between product regulation and labor market outcomes. In … particular, I summarize work on the employment effects of shop-closing regulation in the retail and other related sectors …. Evidence on employment in the retail sector from Germany, the Netherlands and the United States suggests that the regulatory …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …