hundreds of millions of dollars in costs without knowing whether a given regulation will really solve a significant problem …

This article explores the question of whether contemporary regulatory reformers' attitudes toward government regulation … shared beliefs that regulation often proves counterproductive in terms of its own objectives, fails demanding tests for …

-private competition, the benchmarking process described in this paper does not make use of coercive regulation and leaves the competitive …

competition is likely to develop on its own, or whether specific access regulation is necessary or desirable in attaining this end … that specific mandatory access regulation, on top of generic non-discrimination principles found in competition law and … strengthened if necessary in sector-specific regulation, is not needed to facilitate competition and may be counterproductive …