The emerging literature on interaction between strategic trade theoryand privatisation uses a simple example to argue that the irrelevanceresult is invalidated if the domestic market is open to foreigncompetition.This paper uses a fairly general framework to show that anythinga regulated...

The paper shows that in a spatial price equilibrium under monopolisitc competition welfare can be increased by subsidising transport.

Vorliegendes Arbeitspapier untersucht, welche Lehren die Schweiz aus der Abschaffung der Pflicht- und Monopolanstalten (PMA) in der Gebäudeversicherung in Deutschland ziehen kann.

The successful deregulation of other network industries like telecommunications and electricity has put increasing pressure on governments to deregulate and liberalize letter markets.(...)

This paper quantifes regional welfare efects of new transport links, which are going to be established in the framework of Trans-European Networks (TEN).