doctrine was developed in antitrust, it became a frequently cited notion in the regulation of network utilities. Its relevance … the doctrine in competition polcy and regulation in the EU and Hungary. The next section is devoted to the controversies …

-of-return regulation is generally thought to result in overinvestment, while incentive regulation is believed to entail underinvestment …. Yet, previous empirical work has generally found that the introduction of incentive regulation has not systematically …-of-return regulation because investment decisions (what can be included in the rate base) are usually evaluated in a discretionary manner …

This paper analyses simultaneous regulation of cost and quality when firms have private, correlated information about …

The paper discusses the respective roles of competition policy and sector-specific regulation for industries such as … when competition policy and to sector-specific regulation apply to a given industry at the same time. The discussion refers … parts of the industry should be subject to regulation, and (iii) the recent cases in the telecommunications and postal …

reform. After a brief description of the analytical underpinnings of competition policy and regulation the paper reviews the … present state of competition and regulation in Philippine ports and inter-island shipping to identify emerging issues that …