...This chapter deals with separation and contestability in network industries, also known as the utilities sector that includes communications, energy, transport, and water. It first provides an overview of separation, which arises from unbundling and liberalisation, before turning...

...This chapter focuses on efficiency and innovation in network industries, also known as the utilities sector that includes communications, energy, transport, and water. It first considers the impact of regulation on utilities and how regulators can promote innovation while also improving regulatory...

...Firms' strategic behavior and managerial decision-making in network industries may differ from those in other industries. This happens because an increase in the demand for one brand need not reduce the demand for competing brands. In addition, consumers may be locked-in a particular standard, so...

... to proscribe behavior that had been accepted by national regulators. monopoly network industries sector specific regulation United States deregulation liberalization privatization telecommunications vertical disintegration electricity industry Germany policy public policy access European...

..., unbundling, and regulated liberalization of network industries. These industries, despite the reforms, are still special, as they include core natural monopoly components (the electricity grid, the gas pipelines, the telephony networks, etc.), are often based on complex system integration of different...

...This article considers how regulators set prices in network industries. Traditionally this was done by setting prices to end users for services produced by a vertically integrated electricity, postal, telecommunications, or water company; prices being set either on the basis of costs incurred...

...Opening markets in network industries to competition is challenging. This chapter compares how such challenges have been addressed by the two most remarkable trade liberalization regimes—the internal market project of the European Union (EU) and the trade agreements of the World Trade Organization...

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...This chapter focuses on the use of competition in network industries, also known as the utilities sector that includes communications, energy, transport, and water. It first provides an overview of competition and its virtues before turning to unbundling as a means to achieve competition...

... the experience of certain network industries to throw light on how their profit levels and pricing policies have been affected by links with government. Two sectors are examined in detail. The first is the local utilities sector in late 19th-century Britain, which embraced electricity, tramways, water supply...

...Figure 26.1 Average electricity prices (c/kWH) Source: Eskom https://www.eskom.co.za . The 1980s saw a global shift to the liberalization and regulation of network industries which were previously public utilities. Underperforming SOEs and unsustainable debt forced South...

...Public utility network industries historically evolved as either state-owned or private regulated vertically integrated monopolies. Many countries have privatized and restructured these sectors. Reforms typically involve the vertical separation of potentially competitive segments, which...