information sources include two Bank of Italy surveys carried out in 2007 on local public water authorities and local water …

The paper provides a survey of some of the main tenets of water management in Italy, following the path of a rather …

significantly different results when compared to the canonical monopolistic and duopolistic models. In a certain-lived monopoly, the … leader invests sooner than in a duopoly if there is a risk of being preempted, and later than in a monopoly if the leader … role is pre-assigned. In a random- lived monopoly, entry occurs somewhere between the duopoly and monopoly cases. Higher …

to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case study of the implementation of the 1994 water reform in Italy in … European Court of Justice. -- regulatory reform ; public policy implementation ; Europeanization ; water sector ; Italy …