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 … leverage their monopoly powerin the local market to the long distance market. We also discuss thewave of mergers in the …

shows that coverage of electricity users has grown faster in urban areas ever since the establishment of regulation …. Although it is not argued that regulation has caused the increase in electricity consumers, the data does show that a … comparatively faster urban growth rate of users takes place after 1995. In this sense, it seems plausible that regulation of 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. …

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 …

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 …