depend on sound infrastructure and well-calibrated regulation. The humble wooden utility pole, first deployed in America in … risks Joint Pole Committees (JPCs) pose for energy and communications safety, service, competition, and regulation. This …, competition, and accountable governance at the forefront of utility regulation. This article lifts the veil over JPC practices …

benefits of price-cap regulation are not necessarily undermined with the change in the capital structures of the firms. Also …, incentive-based regulation is not necessarily incompatible with high levels of debt. Finally, it is shown that there is still a …

regulation by setting their own private food quality standards in order to choose the type of standards that minimises their …

We develop a model to discuss a government's incentives to delegate to bureaucrats the regulation of an industry. The …-based regulation policy requires the government to make use of a bureaucracy; this has a bureaucratic cost, as the bureaucracy diverts … implications for when and how a government should delegate its regulation of industry. We find that bureaucratic discretion reduces …