, challenge antitrust and regulation policy. The paper focuses on the theoretical and methodological basis provided by the New … specific view of NIE at industrial organization, antitrust and regulation, discusses three current issues - the European policy …

, deregulatory policies including soft regulation are the dominant policy in “black” areas, where several independent infrastructure … new fiber-based communications infrastructure. Since such investment is expected to induce substantial positive …

provides a description of the process of collecting data on investment in physical infrastructure in the e …

Regulation of the cable television industry was marked by remarkable periods of deregulation, re-regulation, and re … effect of regulation and competition on cable rates. Our calculations indicate that while regulation lowered rates for small ….6 to 8.8 percent, with even larger declines during periods of regulation. Our results suggest that competition is more …

Regulation and competition policy are two alternative modalities by which the state intervenes in the market. In order … varieties of market failures and identify those for which regulation is best address (cooperation failures such as The Fishing … regulation in jurisdictions where institutions are weak. The reasons are: information intensity and asymmetry being greater with …

-of-return regulation is generally thought to result in overinvestment, while incentive regulation is believed to entail underinvestment …. Yet, previous empirical work has generally found that the introduction of incentive regulation has not systematically …-of-return regulation because investment decisions (what can be included in the rate base) are usually evaluated in a discretionary manner …

infrastructure by 2025, the government should aim for a well-balanced combination of regulatory incentives for private sector …

concession models. Next, theoretical backgrounds and rules of thumb for risk allocation in concessions for road infrastructure …