account key institutional features of EU public utilities, such as: a) regulation by agencies with various degrees of …

transport sector of the world's economies, which in its turn reflects the strategic dominance of transport within economies. The …

We study the regulation of a firm which supplies a regulated service while also operating in a competitive, unregulated … (with price and quantity competition) and optimal regulation that involves an informational externality to the competitors …. Although joint conduct of the activities generates scope economies, it also entails private information, so that regulation is …

Critics of privatization argue that poor labor force restructuring is a key concern and that governments should … establish better retrenchment programs. Using new data from arandom sample of 400 companies in the world, we test competing … owners after privatization. Our results show that adverse selection plagues retrenchment programs carried out by governments …