The paper presents the results of a research on railway regulation and liberalisation in Italy, France, Germany and … Spain. The analysed fields of regulation are the relationship between the State and the rail companies, network access …. The aim of the paper is to give a comparative overview of the rail regulation from a critical point of view, rather than …

part summarises the main outcomes of regulatory reform. The data on regulation and market structure are taken primarily … from the OECD International Regulation Database. The main findings of the analysis are the following: <UL …

West, some "natural monopoly" sectors will require continued regulation to protect consumers from monopoly abuses. This … paper focuses on three aspects of the design of regulatory policy in these countries: the appropriate sectors for regulation …

A current topic in Germany and the EU is the review of railway legislation regarding access and price regulation as … whether unbundling requirements should be extended. Secondly, it discusses a possible new design of price regulation … principles. Before analysing these proposals, this paper describes the specific requirements for regulation of the railway sector …

controls the incumbent rail service company, Trenitalia. RFI also reported to the Office of Rail Regulation (URSF) of the …

This paper makes the case for the return of regulation in the organization of urban bus services in developing …