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Below is the draft of a lecture given on Tuesday 23rd November 1999 as part of the IEA's Regulation Lecture series organised by the late Michael Beesley of the London Business School. This is reproduced with the kind permission of Catherine Waddams Price.

Regulation Lectures Gas: Regulatory Response to Social Needs Tuesday 23rd November 1999 Speaker: Professor Catherine Waddams Price, University of Warwick … Continue reading “Gas: Regulatory Responses to Social Need”
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This is a draft of a lecture given on Tuesday 16th November 1999 as part of the IEA's Regulation Lecture series organised by the late Michael Beesley of the London Business School. This is reproduced with the kind permission of David Starkie

Regulation Lectures Introduction Airports are different from the other regulated utilities, or so it would seem. The debate on the … Continue reading “A New Deal for Airports”
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Utility regulation in Britain has now entered a phase in which debate is no longer so much concerned with whether it is preferable to rival systems but with how to shape the'regulatory contract' in monopoly areas and, in potentially competitive areas, how to ensure rivalry.

Contents Regulatory Institutions and Regulatory Policy for Economics in Transition MARTIN CAVE AND JON STERN, Comments by SIR BRYAN CARSBERG … Continue reading “Regulating Utilities: Understanding the Issues”