squeeze can be observed as the competitive outcome rather than exclusionary conduct. If upstream market regulation is non … upstream regulation and a ban are implemented jointly, the DRC-effect vanishes and downstream prices may to rise, leading to a …

regulation of private activities, is now unfolding in countries on every habitable continent around the world (Livermore and …

Within the sphere of economic and social regulation, two of the longest standing debates concern appropriate regulatory … best and why? Drawing principally from examples in the areas of occupational health and safety and environmental regulation … including Responsive Regulation, Meta-Regulation and Management Based Regulation. It concludes by arguing for context based …

take account of the distributional consequences of regulation. The academic literature has largely accepted the view that … regulation of greenhouse gases through flexible regulatory tools, in California and at the federal level, respectively. The time …

interaction of these two systems has not been extensively studied. We examine four different facets of the regulation litigation …

Access services. Given the present debate over expanding price regulation in this sector, the importance of market definition … on the expected economic effects of regulation is worth evaluating. In this paper, we demonstrate that if geographic … markets are “location specific” and supplied by a monopolist as the proponents of regulation claim, then price regulation …

benefits of price-cap regulation are not necessarily undermined with the change in the capital structures of the firms. Also …, incentive-based regulation is not necessarily incompatible with high levels of debt. Finally, it is shown that there is still a …

Why regulate natural monopolies? Conventional economic theory points to the price-marginal cost margin and the ensuing … pursued stable pricing. When pressed, regulators justify rejection of the conventional theory on the grounds of pursuit of … fairness' or equity. Could it be that the conventional economic justification for natural monopoly regulation is flawed? Some …