that adequate competition will prevail, it will be necessary to restructure monopoly generators. The existing ESI needs to … Queensland following the restructuring and deregulation process undertaken in 1997 and 1998 respectively. This microeconomic … reform process essentially replaced a vertically integrated electricity monopoly with an oligopolistic electricity market. In …

Wettbewerb nicht zu wohlfahrtsoptimalen Ergebnissen f?hrt, und in welchen Bereichen regulierende Eingriffe notwendig sind …

point to the real danger that theintent of Congress in passing the 1996 Act to promote competition intelecommunications will … leverage their monopoly powerin the local market to the long distance market. We also discuss thewave of mergers in the …

that increased competition leads to increases in technical efficiency. In the present paper, this issue is addressed … that competition may in some cases improve efficiency they do not imply that free market policies will maximise welfare … uncritical acceptance of economically unsound policies proposed in the name of competition. …

deregulation. When railways are not faced with competition from other railways or from other forms of transportation such as barges …), restrictions on branch line abandonment have been lifted, and further deregulation of price and car allocation is being considered … essential to control the monopoly power of the railways. There has been very little discussion of other policy options, with the …

recent developments in the electric utility industry--most notably, the rapid trend toward competition in electric generation …

way. The transition will be from a structure based on a vertically integrated and regulated monopoly to one equipped to … structure, which has been based upon its monopoly status. Second, it describes the industry`s transition to a competitive …

principle that market deregulation and competition will bring down the cost of electricity for all classes of customers. It … would effectively break up the monopoly status of the regulated utilities and allow customers to purchase electricity …