approach to regulation. Chapters on each topic are followed by comments from regulators, competition authority chairmen and …Introduction / Colin Robinson -- 1. Beyond regulation / Stephen Littlechild -- Comment / Colin Robinson -- 2. Ronald … -- Comment / Nigel Stapleton -- 6. Developing the framework of rail regulation / Chris Bolt -- Comment / Chris Nash -- 7. Cost of …

This book responds to the opening up of electricity markets to competition, which has completely changed the nature of …

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 …

parcel market / Andreas Haller, Christian Jaag and Urs Trinkner -- Competition and the social cost of regulation in the … -- Optimization of the United States postal retail network by applying GIS and econometric tools / J.P. Klingenberg, Lyudmila Y … Service's operations / Norma B. Nieto and Adam C. Houck -- Economic regulation and the UK postal sector, 2000-2011 / Tim Walsh …

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

-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 …

provide a critical analysis of relevant, yet contentious, issues such as competition, unbundling, regulation, access charging … also be of use to postgraduates studying infrastructure economics, policy and regulation. …