With regulation seeking to foster competition at the same time as also having to protect essential services, the authors investigate regulatory styles, costs of new regulatory functions and how firms in the new regulatory landscape access and influence regulatory authorities. The authors...

How regulations are implemented and enforced, and how compliance is ensured and promoted, are critical determinants of whether a regulatory system is working as intended. Inspections are one of the most important ways to enforce regulations and to ensure regulatory compliance. Based on the 2014...

This handbook provides a discussion the major trends and issues in regulation over the last 30 years, together with an outline of prospective developments. Each chapter offers a broad overview of key current issues and provides an analysis of different perspectives on those issues.