TY - BOOK AU - Crew, Michael. AU - Parker, David. TI - International handbook on economic regulation SN - 9781848441729 AV - HE 7645 .C74 2006 PY - 2006/// CY - USA PB - Edward Elgar KW - TELECOMMUNICATION KW - DEREGULATIO. KW - TELECOMMUNICATION POLICY. KW - PUBLIC UTILITIES KW - FINANCE KW - LAW AND LEGISLATION. KW - TRADE REGULATION. KW - BUSINESS ENTERPRISES KW - CENTRAL PLANNING KW - UNITED STATES KW - GREAT BRITAIN N1 - Includes index; 1. Development in the Theory and Practice of Regulatory Economics.--2. Economic Regulation: Principles, History and Methods.--3. Regulation, Pricing and Social Welfare.--4. Regulating Prices and Service Quality.--5. Utility Regulation and Competition in Developing Countries.--6. Performance Benchmarking in Utility Regulation: Principles and the UK’s Experience.--7. Regulation and the Cost of Capital.--8. Information Revelation and Incentives.--9. Regulatory Governance and the Lessons from UK Practice.--10. Regulation and Consumer Representation.--11. Regulatory Impact Assessment.--12. Economics of Environmental Regulation: Instruments and Cases.--13. The Economics of Access and Interconnection Charges in Telecommunications.--14. Regulation and the Structure of the Telecommunications Industry.--15. The Regulation of Energy: Issues and Pitfalls.--16. Economic Regulation of Transport: Principles and ExperienceIan Savage.--17. Regulation of Water and Sewerage Services N2 - An analytical work on leading research issues in the economics of regulation. It offers a comprehensive discussion of major developments in both the theory and practice of regulatory economics. It begins by looking at the principles, history and methods of regulation before turning to specialist themes ER -