and experience, focusing on regulation, public sector involvement and political interference, market entry, vertical …

tighter regulation. Using data from the electricity industry, this analysis considers the total effect of restructuring on one … restructuring in the electricity generation industry. As numerous industries and economies have undergone this sort of transition to …

competitive energy supplier. Over 200 communities have voted to do this for electricity. By 2004 residential switching reached 69 … Stabilization Plans holding incumbent utility prices below cost since 2006. In the Ohio gas sector, rate regulation has not …

The next years should bring about a rapid transformation of the electricity sector towards high levels of renewable …, and keeping the costs down in distribution networks. Network unbundling on the other hand is essential for competition in … the liberalized electricity industry. It forces independence of the networks and thereby eliminates concern that incumbent …

Recent rate increases by U.S. freight railroads have refocused attention on regulation, deregulation, and regulatory …

regulation, vertical integration and legal unbundling regimes provide highest investment incentives and lead to highest welfare … structures such as vertical integration, ownership and legal unbundling lead to different investments. We find that, without … the entrant is low. Under ownership unbundling, investment incentives are lower but there is never foreclosure of the …

whether unbundling requirements should be extended. Secondly, it discusses a possible new design of price regulation …A current topic in Germany and the EU is the review of railway legislation regarding access and price regulation as … well as unbundling requirements of infrastructure and transport services. The debate focuses firstly on the question …