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Better regulation is intended to serve as a framework to increase economic competitiveness, ensuring that legislation … energy efficiency of consumer electronics). The United Kingdom was an early mover in better regulation, implementing a … regulator conduct impact assessments. In the Republic of Ireland the government adopted a white paper on better regulation and …
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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 …
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The paper addresses the question of pricing access to the network facilities of an incumbent firm after deregulation. Network access pricing continues to be regulated in such industries as telecommunications, railroads, electric power and natural gas. We emphasize that access prices should be...
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Over the past few years the debate over the economic rationality of health, safety and environmental regulation has … misrepresent ex ante guesses as "the" costs and benefits of regulation. They also zero out whole categories of benefits that cannot …
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Regulation is often casually conceived of as functioning like a binary on/off switch: as if an area, issue, or industry … is either regulated or not. While this binary model of regulation can be useful, it also decontextualizes regulatory … past and future decisions. As an alternative, we present a timeline approach to regulation. The timeline approach is …
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The introduction of liberalisation and concepts such as third-party access, network ownership unbundling and competition in the EU’s internal energy market following the first, second and third sets of EU legislative packages and directives had the effect of requiring Member States to...
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The Opinion of Advocate General (‘AG’) Rantos in Servizio Elettrico Nazionale goes to the core of Article 102 TFEU. What is an abuse? What type of conduct is abusive? When does abusive conduct take place? What are the goals pursued by the prohibition of abuse of dominance, and who should be...
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Three decade ago, federal policymakers - Republicans and Democrats - embarked on a general strategy of deregulation in the electricity, gas delivery, and telecommunications industries. The strategy called for restructuring to separate production from the transmission and distribution, followed...
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