paper ends in 1980 after which competition and efficiency dominated infrastructure regulation. Since 2005, there has been a …This paper discusses the role of affordability in the development of economic regulation from the emergence of railway … regulation in the 1840-60 period. It also covers the regulatory responses to the development of network telecoms, electricity and …

Infrastructure regulation has faced transitions not just in recent years, but also throughout much its existence over …. Along with affecting infrastructure, the global financial crisis may itself be a network effect. This paper was presented as …

In many countries, infrastructure liberalization progressed faster than the privatization of former state monopolies …, it probes whether the combination of government ownership and regulation helps overcome some of the shortcomings of the … regulation of private firms. Although we find hints of tensions between state ownership and government regulation, we do not find …

incentives to invest in network infrastructure. To this end, we develop a theoretical model explaining investment incentives by … regulation and recently imposed fiber access regulations. Our main finding is that more stringent access regulations for both the …

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 …

general competition and sector specific frameworks and rules regarding the regulation of the Internal Energy Market … designing solutions for the stable development of Energy Market infrastructure. Competition law provides ex post and case …-by-case solutions, which lack the breadth of objectives expressed by sector regulation. On the other hand, sector regulation seems to …

telecommunications regulation corresponding to a crosscountry sample (26 countries of the OECD area). I find that the determining factors … of the AA are implicit safeguards against its effectiveness "disadvantage" for performing regulation in a complex …