Oxford Review of Economic Policy articles from March 1997

Oxford Review of Economic Policy archives from March 1997

The assessment: introducing competition into regulated industries. (competition among utilities in the United Kingdom)(Industry Overview)
March 22, 1997... The introduction of competition into utilities is currently being pursued in the many countries, including the UK. Competition can take various forms, such as competition for outputs, inputs, franchises, and outright takeovers. Attention is...

Regulation, competition, and the structure of prices. (competition policy for regulated industries in the United Kingdom)
March 22, 1997... Many competition policy issues in regulated industries concern the structure of prices charged by multi-product firms--for example price discrimination, non-linear pricing, cross-subsidies, and network access pricing. This article first sets...

Competition in the electricity industry in England and Wales. (following privatization)(Industry Overview)
March 22, 1997... When the electricity industry was privatized, the government made structural changes to encourage competition in generation and in supply to consumers. The conventional power stations were only divided between two companies, however, and we...

Competition and regulation in the UK gas industry. (United Kingdom)(Industry Overview)
March 22, 1997... The decade since privatization has seen gas change from an integrated monopoly with no competition and without the structure necessary to encourage it, to an industry moving rapidly towards full competition. British Gas was privatized as an...

Competition in telecommunications. (United Kingdom)(Industry Overview)
March 22, 1997... This paper discusses the scope for competition in the telecommunications industry, taking into account the features of natural monopoly, network externalities, and customer inertia. Recent policy towards competition in the industry in the UK...

Competition in the water industry. (United Kingdom)(Industry Overview)
March 22, 1997... The paper discusses competition in the water industry in the UK, with the focus on product-market competition. Water has traditionally been seen as an industry characterized by regional or local natural monopoly, with franchising and...

Competition in the rail industry. (United Kingdom)(Industry Overview)
March 22, 1997... The privatization of the railways in Britain is almost complete. The article describes the method of privatization, where a vertically integrated state-owned monopoly has been broken up into a monopoly track company, three monopolistic owners...