, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focuses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New … specific view of NIE at industrial organization, antitrust and regulation, discusses three current issues - the European policy …

infrastructure providers increases. After some years these providers are often confronted with stricter state regulation that impacts … several infrastructure industries like power, telephone and railroads in the US and Germany it analyses self-regulation in …As governments continue to privatize infrastructure services like electricity or gas the importance of private …

-oriented regulator, NERSA. Regulatory governance theory proposes that regulation is most effective when the roles of different … regulation is challenged by a weak ministry, overlapping spheres of regulatory influence and competing goals amongst the parties …

This report is designed to be a self-contained introduction to performance-based regulation (PBR) with an emphasis on …-of-service regulation (COSR), the various forms of PBR and their efficiency properties, common misconceptions about PBR, the economic and …

We compare the welfare effects of different regulation schemes of electricity distribution utilities. The compared … regulation schemes are fixed price regulation, cost of service regulation, menu of cost-contingent contracts and simple menus of …. Our basic result is that welfare can be improved by changing the cost of service regulation scheme to the menu of …