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This paper analyses whether scale economies exists in the UK telecommunications industry. The approach employed differs from other UK studies in that panel data for a range of companies is used. This increases the number of observations and thus allows potentially for more robust tests for...
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In this article we chart the development of competition and deregulation of the British retail energy markets, explaining the evolution of competitive constraints when consumers are introduced to supplier choice for the first time. In the context of rising real energy prices for consumers, and...
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I examine the effects of privatization, in the form of acquisitions, in the Swedish electricity distribution sector. As the majority of the distribution networks remained publicly owned, I use a synthetic control method to identify the effects on price and labor efficiency. In comparison to...
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This paper studies the effect of soft-budget constraints in a pure adverse selection model of monopoly regulation. We … regulatory set-up in which firms are free to enter natural monopoly markets and to choose their price and output levels as in the …-up allows governments to avoid re-funding moneyloosing firms and that welfare is larger than under traditional regulation where …
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policy debate on interconnector expansion and studies two particular points. First, the effects of network regulation on the …
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the efficient and the monopoly benchmarks. There remains a rationale for regulation, albeit reduced relative to the …, in which regulation has been imposed on what appears to be a competitive industry. We introduce a framework which … the termination charge being set at the monopoly level), and one analyzing mobile-to-mobile network interconnection (where …
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sector regulation and objectives as a context within the process of implementation of competition law in the energy sector … and third, we will investigate how sector regulation in energy sector incorporates competition law principles and affirms … combined with the need for effectiveness and focus on other than competition objectives of sector regulation and we will result …
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-cap incentive regulation, independent regulatory agencies and an emphasis on introducing competition where possible. For each …, and these weaknesses call for a model of regulation designed specifically to address them …
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transition from regulation to product market competition. First, we develop a theoretical framework that models this particular …
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Successful network utility privatisation requires incentive-based regulation that allows investment to be adequately …
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