The paper offers an exploratory empirical analysis of the impact on consumers' welfare of the reforms of the gas industry in 15 member states of the European Union. After considering some features of the natural gas industry and of its reform in selected countries, we study the relationship...

This paper analyses the effects on consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy carried out in the UK since 1979. The approach we follow sees the privatisation of a State owned enterprise within the broader framework of the policy reform theory (Dreze and Stern, 1990). By adopting this...

This paper analyses the effects on consumers' welfare of the privatisation policy carried out in the UK since 1979. The approach we follow sees the privatisation of a State owned enterprise within the broader framework of the "policy reform" theory (Drèze and Stern, 1990). By adopting this...