Investment in broadband communications and its infrastructures (the so-called Next
Generation Networks) is receiving extraordinary attention from policy makers all over the …

This chapter reviews recent theoretical work on the design of regulatory policy, focusing on
the complications that arise when regulated suppliers have better information about the …

In many countries throughout the world, regulators are struggling to determine whether and
how to introduce competition into regulated industries. This essay examines the …

The last thirty years have witnessed a fundamental change in the regulation of infrastructure
industries. Whereas firms were subject to rate of return regulation and protected from entry in …

Over the last 20 years, incentives in general and price caps in particular have breathed new
life into public utility regulation. Price caps successfully combine incentives for cost reduction …

This paper investigates the relationship between investment and regulatory regimes
(incentive vs. rate-of-return regulation) for a sample of EU energy utilities from 1997 to 2007 …

We examine the impact of state incentive regulation on network modernization, aggregate
investment, revenue, cost, profit, and local service rates in the US telecommunications …

Artificial intelligence applications in network industries have the potential to reduce network
roll-out and operating costs, improve performance, enhance customer service, and support …

Quality of service (QoS) is of major economic significance in natural monopoly infrastructure
industries. In this article, we present an efficiency analysis of electricity distribution networks …

The dramatic worldwide increase in mobile communication that has led to more than 4
billion users has over the last few years been accompanied in wealthy countries by a …