-private competition, the benchmarking process described in this paper does not make use of coercive regulation and leaves the competitive … considerations. They argue that important policy goals like universal service will not be achieved by competition. However, an … my article, I describe a new concept of public-private competition, according to which governments use state owned …

, while we highlight the major points concerning competition regulation, which are related to the effort for the establishment … and defines the application of European competition law to this framework of restructuring. We firstly present the … law - the general framework of the application of competition rules to energy market, under a scope of combination of …

-specific regulation and competition law. In this paper, we explore how these two approaches have been used to facilitate the arrival of …European Community law has played a pivotal role in opening to competition economic sectors previously under the … competition. In this paper, we will focus on the first category of market failures, i.e. the bottlenecks that may prevent …

paper ends in 1980 after which competition and efficiency dominated infrastructure regulation. Since 2005, there has been a …This paper discusses the role of affordability in the development of economic regulation from the emergence of railway … regulation in the 1840-60 period. It also covers the regulatory responses to the development of network telecoms, electricity and …

context of greater or lesser innovation remain important, because competition law enforcement is not suited to playing a … structural role here. Instead, it can help to signal problems, establish principles and guard boundaries. Regulation and … competition are not alternatives, but complementary …

intervene in such market situations and if they intervene, what respective roles regulation and competition law should play … analyses how market power is controlled at the intersection between competition law and regulation in EU competition law and in …

This document (of 351 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable on regulation and competition issues … broadcasting, approaches to regulation of broadcasting and highlighting the features of the industry which give rise to competition … member countries describing in detail the regulatory regime for broadcasting and some of the competition policy issues which …

under competition law-based sector governance (the period from 1987 to 2001) and under industry-specific regulation (2001 to …-specific regulation, however, transfers to consumers appear to have reduced, transaction costs have increased and delays are being … incurred in the deployment of new applications and technologies relative to the competition law regime as participants engage …

and numerous market failures affecting development. In these types of markets, implementation of competition law and … promote transparent competition. The experience of other countries and their approach to the implementation of competition … regulation may provide substantial benefits for developing countries, which can refer to the tools, successes, and failures in …

. Following this introduction, Part II explains that sector-specific regulation and competition law are complementary tools and … even in the presence of ex ante regulation, competition rules should continue to play a significant role. Ex ante … regulation and competition law are complements, not substitutes. Finally, Part V contains a short conclusion …