The article focuses on two parallel developments, the Europeanization of contract law and the regulation of communications markets. Comparing the two sectors allows to test some hypotheses about the interaction between administrative tools e private law rules. Specific attention is paid to the...

This chapter surveys research on the regulation of the energy sector that applies the methodology of Comparative Law and Economics or provides insights on how to improve it. It begins with a discussion of the notion of economic efficiency in the context of energy markets liberalization and...

Italian Abstract: Questo libro è stato pubblicato in italiano nel 2000. L'obiettivo principale era esplorare l'interazione fra la teoria economica dei contratti incompleti e le regole contrattuali applicabili a diversi tipi di incertezza, connessa ad eventi esterni o al comportamento dell'altra...

Development of green infrastructures (renewable energy plants and transmission networks) is urgently needed if significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions are to be accomplished in the next few decades. But the huge financial investments required by these infrastructures will not be...

Development of green infrastructures (renewable energy plants and transmission networks) is urgently needed if significant reductions of greenhouse emissions are to be accomplished in the next few decades. But the huge financial investments required by these infrastructures will not be...

Both the economic literature and international organizations like the World Bank and OECD have devoted many efforts to the assessment of the relationship between the quality of the regulatory framework and the performance of markets. The prevailing wisdom relies on the construction of synthetic...

Climate change policies call for a radical technological shift in the energy sector. The huge costs of greenhouse gas emissions abatement can be scaled down only if the development of low-carbon technologies will take place at an accelerated pace. But such progress has to confront with a large...

This paper analyzes the impact of the measures aimed at protecting residential consumers on the performance of residential retail energy (electricity and gas) markets in Europe. Our sample includes the ten countries that opened up the retail markets to households in electricity, gas, or both,...