"This paper examines the economic implications of the privatisation that has been occurring in Europe. Different sectors and different countries have developed separately, but policymakers can learn common lessons. Considerable experience of privatisation has produced a mounting body of...

This paper reviews the alternative labour market scenarios open to European policymakers in the current movement towards enhanced economic and political integration. To clarify the various issues, the paper dichotomises the policy alternatives into two camps: "euro-liberalists" and...

The past decade has witnessed a considerable relaxation of traditional, economic regulation of markets (Swann (1988)). In particular there has been a movement away from direct controls over market entry and exit, output, rates of return, and price setting, and towards regimes of quality and...

The notion of the ?New Urban Economics? emerged in the late 1960s as more rigorous approaches were applied to what had largely hitherto been an essentially descriptive approach to analyzing urban economies. The application of mathematical methods to urban problems offered the prospect of both a...