This paper assesses what role product market competition and regulatory reforms may have played in the performance of … regulations inhibiting competition and barriers to trade amongst the lowest in the OECD. Nevertheless, there is scope for … improvement and the recent overhaul of competition legislation should help to further promote competition. Much progress has been …

In this article we chart the development of competition and deregulation of the British retail energy markets … quesiton of whether the control of pricing practices through the ex post provisions of the general competition law is …

outcomes in deregulated markets. These market failures could be the result of bad regulation, bad competition law enforcement … opening up markets to competition does not automatically lead to more consumer benefits. When consumers have insufficient … made possible by effective competition and to activate competition. Information failures, therefore, can distort the …