The establishment of competitive markets has been one of the cornerstones Hungarian economic policy over the past decade, alongside a successful strategy of attracting foreign investment. Broad statistical measures show no signs of endemically weak domestic competition, though the country’s...

The aim of this paper is to construct indicators that measure the strength of policies aimed at preserving and promoting market competition by empowering antitrust and sectoral authorities. The indicators, which cover both general and sector-specific competition policies, extend previous OECD...

Well-established economic principles show that regulated monopolies may have an incentive to act discriminatorily against rivals of their unregulated affiliates. This paper discusses some recent empirical evidence regarding discrimination in telecommunications. Specifically, it surveys anecdotal...

In this article, the U.S. and southern Canadian natural gas supply market is considered. An important model for oil and natural gas supply is the Hubbert curve. Not all regions of the world are producing oil or natural gas following a Hubbert curve, even when price and market conditions are...

Local utilities managing grids need more and more means to meet their aims: (i) to maintain the assets’ lifespan over the time; (ii) to upgrade the assets to the state-of-the-art; (iii) to increase the assets to fulfill the new requests in order to universal service. So that it’s essential to...

In relation with objectification and increase in nationwide operation effectiveness of natural monopolies in network industries on the market, the role of regulation mechanisms is increasing. Its aim is the closest approximation of proportions between price and level of network industry products...

This paper examines factors underlying the investment decisions on airport infrastructures and the main features of the economic related regulation in Italy. In order to evaluate the system's future capacity to compete globally and at an intermodal level following the forecasted increase in the...

<marquage typemarq="italique"/> In September 2006, the European Council decided to put an end to the exemption Regulation from which liner conferences had been benefiting since 1986. The European Commission pledged to ?facilitate the transition towards a fully competitive system?, while showing ambitions in support of an...

Regulatory practice continues to be criticised and challenged. Issues which were concerning Government, regulators, companies and consumers in 2003 are, in many respects, still unresolved. There is a risk that too many decisions on developments in regulatory policy will be taken by Ministers...

In mid-2010, France will open market competition to online gambling and casinos. The market is opening as European law evolves and reacts to the growing number of illegal Internet sites. The ensuing new legal scope targets quality-based competition versus price-oriented competition, especially...