The Anticompetitive Impact of Regulation

by Amato, Giuliano; Laudati, Laraine L.

• ISBN13: 9781840646771
• ISBN10: 1840646772
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub

Table of Contents

List of figures	viii
List of tables	ix
List of contributors	x
Introduction	xvi
Giuliano Amato
Laraine L. Laudati
PART I REGULATIONS AFFECTING STRUCTURALLY COMPETITIVE INDUSTRIES: THE PROFESSIONS AND PRIVATE BUSINESSES
Introduction	3	(2)
Frederic Jenny
Deregulation of structurally competitive services: economic analysis and competition advocacy	5	(24)
Ginevra Bruzzone
The anticompetitive effects of minimum quality standards: the role of self-regulation	29	(20)
Carlo Scarpa
Advertising restrictions in professional services	49	(22)
Chiara Fumagalli
Massimo Motta
Reading Adam Smith into the First Amendment: the US Supreme Court doctrine of commercial speech	71	(33)
Laraine L. Laudati
Occupational regulation	104	(12)
Allan Fels
David Parker
Blair Comley
Vishal Beri
Regulation, competition and the professions	116	(12)
Frederic Jenny
Panel discussion	128	(23)
PART II REGULATIONS AFFECTING STRUCTURALLY NON-COMPETITIVE INDUSTRIES: THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC SERVICES
Introduction	147	(4)
Alberto Heimler
Regulation and inefficient entry: economic analysis and the British experience	151	(20)
Mark Armstrong
When should regulated companies be vertically separated?	171	(27)
Darryl Biggar
Conditioning the Bells' entry into long distance: anticompetitive regulation or promoting competition?	198	(22)
Marius Schwartz
Regulation and privatization: the case of electricity	220	(25)
Domenico Siniscalco
Bernardo Bortolotti
Marcella Fantini
Inappropriate regulation and stifled innovation in the road freight industry: lessons for policy reform	245	(17)
Mark Dutz
Aydin Hayri
Local public services in Italy: make, buy or leave it to the market?	262	(16)
Alberto Heimler
Cross-country regulation patterns and their implications for macroeconomic and sectoral performance	278	(36)
Giuseppe Nicoletti
Panel discussion	314	(15)
PART III REFORM, REGULATORY INSTITUTIONS AND THE ROLE OF COMPETITION AUTHORITIES
Introduction	325	(4)
Allan Fels
Australia's comprehensive review of anticompetitive laws	329	(14)
Allan Fels
Introduction to existing programmes addressing the anticompetitive impact of regulation	343	(21)
Laraine L. Laudati
Spanish independent authority and its role in a new competitive environment	364	(14)
Manuel Ballbe
Carlos Padros
Joining the electric industry policy debate at the state level	378	(16)
John C. Hilke
Country experiences with targeted advocacy and enforcement programmes	394	(18)
Michael O. Wise
Competition advocacy within the European Commission: the role of DG competition	412	(7)
Kirti Mehta
Constitutional limits to anticompetitive regulation: the principle of proportionality	419	(23)
Michael Kohl
Panel discussion	442	(17)
PART IV TOUR DE TABLE
Practical economic guidelines for reforming regulation to eliminate its anticompetitive effects	459	(16)
PART V RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE REFORM OF REGULATION TO PROMOTE COMPETITION
Draft guidelines	475	(18)
Giuliano Amato
Laraine L. Laudati
Index	493