whether unbundling requirements should be extended. Secondly, it discusses a possible new design of price regulation …A current topic in Germany and the EU is the review of railway legislation regarding access and price regulation as … well as unbundling requirements of infrastructure and transport services. The debate focuses firstly on the question …

, including railways,fulfilling universal service obligations into commercially competitive entities. Two, liberalization reforms … caused consistent decline of the sector over the past many decades. Previous attempts to reform the railways have failed due … prior institutional reforms such as unbundling and incorporation, and with a regulatory framework to induce and protect …

The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) is a classic example of regulation, and the origins and operation of this … agency have been much analyzed. These have been variously described as examples of public interest regulation, capture … regulation, and what I have called predatory regulation. By predatory regulation I mean that the agency (or law) is created …

Recent rate increases by U.S. freight railroads have refocused attention on regulation, deregulation, and regulatory …

regulation, vertical integration and legal unbundling regimes provide highest investment incentives and lead to highest welfare … structures such as vertical integration, ownership and legal unbundling lead to different investments. We find that, without … the entrant is low. Under ownership unbundling, investment incentives are lower but there is never foreclosure of the …

whether unbundling requirements should be extended. Secondly, it discusses a possible new design of price regulation …A current topic in Germany and the EU is the review of railway legislation regarding access and price regulation as … well as unbundling requirements of infrastructure and transport services. The debate focuses firstly on the question …