Content
1. Introduction
1.1. Instruments of regulation
1.2. Regulatory process
1.3. Economic theory of regulation
2. Natural monopoly regulation
2.1. Rate and rate structure
2.2. Peak-load pricing
2.3. (De)regulation of electric power
3. Franchise bidding
3.1. Competition at the bidding stage
3.2. The postbidding stage
4. Public enterprise
4.1. Positive theory of public enterprise
4.2. Comparison of public and private enterprises
5. (De)regulation on financial markets
5.1. Deregulation and the Credit Crunch: the historic record
5.2. To need to regulate again: Glass-Steagall(bis)
6. Capita selecta
6.1. Dynamics in natural monopoly regulation
6.2. Economic regulation of potentially competitive markets
6.3. Economic regulation of transportation
6.4. Economic regulation of energy
6.5. Environmental regulation
6.6. Product safety regulation
6.7. Patents
6.8. Regulation of workplace health and safety.
Sources:
Viscusi, W.K., Harrington, J.E., Vernon J.M., Economics of antitrust and regulation, MIT Press, 4th edition, 2005.
Stiglitz, J., Freefall: America, Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy, Norton, 2010.
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