<i> Valore del capitale e regolamentazione incentivante: una nota </i> (di Angela S. Bergantino, Diego Piacentino) - ABSTRACT: The necessity of considering, within incentive (price cap) regulation mechanism, the profitability of regulated firms narrows the distance between incentive regulation and cost...

The increase in spectrum demand, which has occurred internationally in the last 10-15 years as a consequence of booming wireless communications, has placed considerable pressure on traditional regulatory arrangements for spectrum access and use. Regulators, especially in industrial countries,...

This paper is a comment on the Milan study on UK privatisations: I have no problem in recognizing that, in theory, a nationalised industry context may reproduce the results of privatisations as far as the organisational aspect, production and prices are concerned, and leave apart (even if not...

This paper considers the effects of destination vs. origin principles of intermediate commodity taxation on the organisational structure of firms in the presence of imperfectly competitive product and labour markets. The paper considers a unionised monopoly firm producing a final good by using...

Public utilities, public enterprises, privatizations, liberalizations and related topics have been the object of far reaching and intense debate among economists, politicians and practitioners for more than a century. Ideas have frequently changed, and practical solutions chosen to manage public...