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Utility regulation and competition policy / edited by Colin Robinson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public utilities--Great Britain.
- Public utilities.
- Public utilities--Deregulation--Great Britain.
- Trade regulation--Great Britain.
- Trade regulation.
- Industrial policy--Great Britain.
- Industrial policy.
- Competition--Government policy--Great Britain.
- Competition.
- Public utilities--European Union countries.
- Public utilities--Deregulation--European Union countries.
- Trade regulation--European Union countries.
- Industrial policy--European Union countries.
- Competition--Government policy--European Union countries.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxix, 212 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Cheltenham ; Northampton, Mass. : E. Elgar Pub., c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book, the latest volume in the annual series published in association with the London Business School and the Institute of Economic Affairs, some of the main issues in UK and EU utility regulation and competition policy are discussed. Topics examined include the new electricity and gas trading markets, regulating the railways, introducing competition into water, telecoms and Ofcom, opening EU gas and electricity markets, the 1998 Competition Act, EU merger policy and a general review of privatisation and regulation in Britain. Essays by expert commentators are followed in each case by comments from the relevant regulator.
- Contents:
- 1. The new electricity trading arrangements in England and Wales : a review / David Currie ; chairman's comments, Callum McCarthy
- 2. A critique of rail regulation / Dieter Helm ; chairman's comments, Tom Winsor
- 3. Moving to a competitive market in water / Colin Robinson ; chairman's comments, Sir Ian Byatt
- 4. The new gas trading arrangements / George Yarrow ; chairman's comments, Eileen Marshall
- 5. A review of privatization and regulation experience in the UK / Irwin M. Stelzer ; chairman's comments, Stephen Littlechild
- 6. Converging communications : implications for regulation / Mark Armstrong ; chairman's comments, David Edmonds
- 7. Opening European electricity and gas markets / Graham Shuttleworth ; chairman's comments, Clare Spottiswoode
- 8. Concurrency or convergence? : competition and regulation under the Competition Act 1998 / Tom Sharpe QC ; chairman's comments, Geoffrey Horton
- 9. Ten years of European merger control / Paul Seabright ; chairman's comments, Derek Morris.
- Notes:
- "In association with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the London Business School."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-78195-105-5
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