legislation on energy and telecommunications regulation. Indeed, these sources are strongly in favour of regulatory independence …The October 2009 Government Statement on Economic Regulation issued proposes a number of sensible reforms that are … Government Statement also proposes to reduce the independence of regulators by holding them to account through a whole series of …

The article discusses the status and role of regulatory bodies and the aftermaths of their independence and … possible breaching of: 1) independence of regulatory bodies, 2) accountability of regulatory bodies to the parliament, and 3 …

of economic activities. The aim of this paper is to discuss the problematic independence of economic regulation … independence of economic regulation both from politicians and the business sector. The case highlights the main system deficiencies … independence of economic regulation, that are so much needed not only in the national context, but also in the context of most CEE …

Regulatory independence has been proposed as a mechanism to alleviate the commitment problem associated with the sunk … both de jure and de facto regulatory independence. The institution of regulatory independence has costs as well as benefits …

This study computes measures of the degree of independence in practice of telecommunications regulators for Latin … governments are able to commit to preserve regulator independence. We combine this information with data on legal independence to … construct indices of regulator independence that are more realistic than those used by the existing literature. Econometric …