Competition in regulated industries

Book

Eleven papers analyze and draw some preliminary lessons from the British experience in introducing competition into regulated industries. Part 1 provides an overview, discussing regulation, competition, and the structure of prices and network industries. Part 2 focuses on the electricity industry in England and Wales and U.K. experiences with the introduction of competition in the gas industry, telecommunications, the water industry, and the rail industry. Part 3 provides the regulators' perspective on the generation and supply of electricity, the regulation of telecommunications, competition in the water and sewerage industry, and competition in the rail industry. Contributors are mainly economists and some are regulators. Helm is at New College, Oxford. Jenkinson is at the University of Oxford and at Keble College. Bibliography; index.

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Place of publication: Oxford and New York
• Publication date: 1998-01-01
• Language: English