International Handbook on Economic Regulation

The Handbook begins by looking at the principles, history and methods of regulation before turning to specialist themes including:

* pricing and social welfare
* regulating service quality
* consumer representation
* performance benchmarking
* environmental regulation
* calculating the cost of capital
* information revelation and incentives
* the economics of access charging
* regulatory governance
* regulatory policy in developing countries
* particular issues in the regulation of the telecommunications, energy, transport and water sectors.

The International Handbook on Economic Regulation is essential reading for researchers in the economics of regulation and students of regulation on final year undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses. As a major reference work, it is of value and assistance to economists in regulatory offices, regulated companies and government departments.

Contributors: T. Ballance, P. Burns, I. Byatt, L.J. Cameron, P. Cook, M.A. Crew, T. Dassler, G.M. Duncan, D. Elliott, M. Harker, A. Heyes, C. Jenkins, T. Jenkinson, C. Kirkpatrick, P.R. Kleindorfer, C. Liston, E. Marshall, L. Mathieu, D. Parker, S. Reid, M. Ricketts, C. Robinson, D.S. Saal, I. Savage, T.J. Tardiff, P. Vass, C. Waddams Price, T. Weyman-Jones