considerations. They argue that important policy goals like universal service will not be achieved by competition. However, an … my article, I describe a new concept of public-private competition, according to which governments use state owned … possible to extend public-private competition from urban to rural areas, where markets are too small to sustain more than one …

Over the last ten years, the European Commission has been trying to increase competition in the postal sector. In order … the postal sector to competition, the level of competition achieved in this sector is quite uneven. Some segments of the … postal market are now subject to intense competition. Yet, others are still largely controlled by postal incumbents. The …

reserved sector) in postal markets, the possibilities for competition increase. In this paper, we investigate whether effective … 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 …

European Community law has played a pivotal role in opening to competition economic sectors previously under the … competition. In this paper, we will focus on the first category of market failures, i.e. the bottlenecks that may prevent … competition in the postal sector. There are two regulatory instruments to impose remedies in network industries, sector …

The paper discusses the respective roles of competition policy and sector-specific regulation for industries such as … governance nowadays is considered to involve downstream competition supported by a state-mandated access provision to the … when competition policy and to sector-specific regulation apply to a given industry at the same time. The discussion refers …

consequences depend on the prevailing type of market structure (competition, monopoly with or without price discrimination, or …