investment and innovation within the area of sector specific regulation in telecoms. The encouragement of efficient investment is … return regulation. The law and the interplay of the interests of incumbents and alternative operators create a fertile soil … on regulatory practice so far, seeing as telecoms regulation is mostly directed at service competition and effective …

In January 2011, a price regulation was established in the Austrian gasoline market which prohibits firms from raising … with consumer search, I show that in face of the regulation, firms will distort their prices intertemporally in such a way …

The variation in the degree of price regulation in the property-liability insurance market in Canada varies across time … higher levels of financial leverage. Using an instrumental variable for the stringency of price-regulation, this paper … worsening business conditions brought-on by price-regulation. …

paper uses an instrumental variable for price regulation with a maximum-likelihood Heckman estimation method over panel data … for Canadian property-liability insurers to extract the impact that price regulation has on the financial leverage of …

, reflecting various degrees of government regulation. A numerical example illustrates the theoretical results. Findings include … the following. First, fare regulation induces the firm to provide less frequency and less information than is socially … strongly limits the welfare improvement of information regulation. Finally, of all institutional structures considered …

. Regulation of the gas pipeline system can be transparent and a result may be a good candidate for some institutional arrangement …

This paper presents a case study of regulation of natural gas pricing in Mexico as a case of “successful” policy …