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"A comprehensive and accessible textbook that connects the latest research on economic regulation with an examination of how regulation is applied in eight essential service industries. Discussion questions explore current debates and online materials include over 60 applied exercises based on real life regulatory problems"--
List of contents
List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; List of selected acronyms and abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Part I. 2. The perennial question: why regulate?; 3. Is economic regulation inevitable?; Part II. 4. Principles of regulation for core network activities; 5. Forms of price regulation; 6. Regulation in the presence of competition; 7. Behavioural economics and regulation; Part III. 8. The institutions of regulation; 9. Electricity regulation; 10. Gas regulation; 11. Telecommunications regulation; 12. Payment systems regulation; 13. Digital platforms regulation; 14. Rail regulation; 15. Aviation regulation; 16. Water and wastewater regulation; 17. Conclusions; Cases and legislation; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Dr Christopher Decker is a research fellow specialising in regulatory and competition economics at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in the University of Oxford. He has extensive experience of the application of economic regulation across a range of industries (energy, water, telecommunications, transport, digital markets, payments and financial services) and has advised international bodies (the World Bank, OECD, European Commission, APEC), as well as government departments, regulators and private companies in many parts of the world.
Summary
A comprehensive and accessible textbook that connects the latest research on economic regulation with an examination of how regulation is applied in eight essential service industries. Discussion questions explore current debates, and online materials include over 60 applied exercises based on real-life regulatory problems.
