, it decreases investment in the subsequent competition and also dampens the overall investment across the two stages. In … addition, an increase in interalliance competition decreases investments in the focal alliance but increases investment in the … competition outside the scope of the alliance. …

conjunctionwith the history of regulation and antitrust intervention in thetelecommunications sector. After discussing the impact of … point to the real danger that theintent of Congress in passing the 1996 Act to promote competition intelecommunications will …

This paper explores the empirical effects of competition on technical efficiency in the context of electricity industry …

contracts in Nordic markets, posing questions for regulation in the absence of retail competition. There are alternatives to … supplanting the role of regulation. Revised calculations suggest that the benefits of UK electricity privatisation were higher … regulation of network monopolies. In Australia regulated interconnectors have been less economic than merchant interconnectors …

way to achieve transportation efficiencies. Other groups, supporting the status quo, argue that the regulation of rates is … deregulation. When railways are not faced with competition from other railways or from other forms of transportation such as barges …, where no effective rail and/or barge competition exists, are approximately twice those at Kansas City and Denver …

In this research we will focus on three topics which we think are particularly relevant for hospital competition: i … of competition on quality of care.ii) The health economy also merits attention because of its sheer size e.g. with …

restructured to introduce competition, and regulation has to be in place to ensure fair competition and to regulate natural … debate over privatisation, restructuring and regulation of the ESI in Thailand in recent years there was a surprising lack of … political background material on: the SOE sector; reform and privatisation of SOEs; SOEs, restructuring and regulation in the …

researched. This paper provides aneconometric assessment of the effects of privatisation, competition and regulation onthe … regulation do not lead to obviousgains in economic performance, though there are some positive interaction effects. Bycontrast …, introducing competition does seem to be effective in stimulatingperformance improvements. …

and asymmetric competition. Several market behaviour scenarios are described where regulation has resulted in carriers … lower prices. This paper reviews the recent literature on international telecommunications markets, and examines regulation …

. Many empirical studies suggest that financial reform promoted bank competition in most mature and emerging economies …. However, some earlier studies that adopted conventional approaches to measure competition concluded that bank competition in … Panzar- Rosse H-statistic fail to measure competition in Chinese loan markets properly due to the system of interest rate …