In this article, David Coen and Chris Doyle provide an overview of recent liberalisation and regulatory developments affecting key utility sectors (electricity, gas, postal service, and telecommunications) in the European Union. They examine what kind of competition is suitable in the utilities,...

This paper examines the design of the regulatory framework governing European network industries, taking account of structures that are more and less centralised than the status quo. We develop a framework within which the key criteria shaping regulatory structures are discussed. Given these...