This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on regional competition and co-operation. Developing … why do regions compete? How does competition between border regions operate? Which regions are successful and which … regions fail? What are the implications of regional competition in terms of resource allocation, the location of economic …

1. Electricity and gas regulation in Great Britain : the end of an era -- 2. Yardstick competition and comparative … performance measures in practice -- 3. Yardstick competition and efficiency benchmarking in electricity distribution -- 4. The …

regulation in Portugal / João Castro and Agostinho Franco -- 4. Competition through downstream access in the UK postal sector … of postal services / Philippe De Donder ... [et al.] -- 11. Postal price elasticities and intermedia competition : a …

Because of the reliance on market analysis, current competition law may not be sufficiently fit for taking account of …, innovation has been given a more prominent place in competition analysis by way of recognizing the existence of "innovation … markets' and 'innovation competition' in, respectively, the 1995 Antitrust Guidelines for the Licensing of Intellectual …

screening externalities induced by competition among venture capitalists as a structural source of instability. We show that …