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Pippo Ranci
1. Regulation of Markets
2. Services and Public Services
3. Competition and its limits
4. Firm Ownership
5. Conditions for good Regulation
6. Local Regulation in a globalised World
1. Regulation of Markets
2. Services and Public Services
3. Competition and its limits
4. Firm Ownership
5. Conditions for good Regulation
6. Local Regulation in a globalised World
1. Regulation of Markets
2. Services and Public Services
3. Competition and its limits
4. Firm Ownership
5. Conditions for good Regulation
6. Local Regulation in a globalised World
1. Regulation of Markets
2. Services and Public Services
3. Competition and its limits
4. Firm Ownership
5. Conditions for good Regulation
6. Local Regulation in a globalised World
Contrast monopoly
• open and large markets
• competition among suppliers enforced by an Antitrust
authority
• set rules and monitor compliance: a Regulatory Authority
Steps:
• Unbundling (accounting, legal, ownership)
• Contents of network regulation: tariffs, rules for access
• A role for both industry regulator a competition authority
Problems:
• Interest links between network company and on service company
• Brand names
1. Regulation of Markets
2. Services and Public Services
3. Competition and its limits
4. Firm Ownership
5. Conditions for good Regulation
6. Local Regulation in a globalised World
• An ideological debate
• “public is always better”:
• the market is simply bad, an engine for inequality
• “private is always better”:
• the public sector is inefficient and corrupt
1. Regulation of Markets
2. Services and Public Services
3. Competition and its limits
4. Firm Ownership
5. Conditions for good Regulation
6. Local Regulation in a globalised World
• in Europe
- public (or semi-public) ownership made regulation seem
unnecessary
1. Regulation of Markets
2. Services and Public Services
3. Competition and its limits
4. Firm Ownership
5. Conditions for good Regulation
6. Local Regulation in a globalised World