trends in EU law in the last ten to fifteen years, as regards the regulation of network industries and of services of general … (iii) between regulation and competition law. At the same time, the separation between the regulatory authority and the …

regulatory reform, and the distortionary effects of utility regulation. I find that the effect of utility regulatory reform in …

This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and empirical literature on the regulation of natural … institutions, price regulation with full information, price regulation with imperfect and asymmetric information, and topics on the … measurement of the effects of price and entry regulation in practice. The chapter also discusses the literature on network access …

provide tools for better understanding changes in the approach to regulation, the reform of public utilities, and the complex … sectors and identifying critical flaws in prevailing views on regulation. Deeply rooted in sector analysis, the book conveys a …