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Understanding regulation : theory, strategy, and practice / Robert Baldwin and Martin Cave.
1999
N 45 BAL.U
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Title
Understanding regulation : theory, strategy, and practice / Robert Baldwin and Martin Cave.
Item Type
Book
Description
xiii, 363 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN
9780198774372 Print
Alternate Call Number
N 45 BAL.U
Summary
The way in which regulation works is a key concern of industries, consumers, citizens, and governments alike. Understanding Regulation takes the reader through the central issues of regulation and discusses these from a number of disciplinary perspectives. The fundamental strategies, institutions, and explanations of regulation are reviewed and the means of identifying 'good' regulation are outlined.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-357) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Introduction
Part I: Fundamentals
2. Why Regulate?
3. Explaining Regulation
4. Regulatory Strategies
5. Who Regulates? Institutions and Structures
6. What is 'Good' Regulation?
7. The Cost-Benefit Testing of Regulation
8. Enforcing Regulation
9. Setting Standards
10. Self-Regulation
11. Regulating Risks
12. Regulation in the European Context
13. Regulatory Competition and Co-ordination
14. British Utilities Regulation: the Basic Structure
Part II: Particular Concerns
15. Price Setting in Natural Monopolies
16. Regulation versus Competition
17. Price Capping Mechanisms
18. Measuring Efficiency: benchmarking and Yardsticking and Performance
19. Regulating Quality
20. Franchising and its Limitations
21. Accountability
22. Procedures and Fairness
23. Conclusions
Select Bibliography
Index.
Part I: Fundamentals
2. Why Regulate?
3. Explaining Regulation
4. Regulatory Strategies
5. Who Regulates? Institutions and Structures
6. What is 'Good' Regulation?
7. The Cost-Benefit Testing of Regulation
8. Enforcing Regulation
9. Setting Standards
10. Self-Regulation
11. Regulating Risks
12. Regulation in the European Context
13. Regulatory Competition and Co-ordination
14. British Utilities Regulation: the Basic Structure
Part II: Particular Concerns
15. Price Setting in Natural Monopolies
16. Regulation versus Competition
17. Price Capping Mechanisms
18. Measuring Efficiency: benchmarking and Yardsticking and Performance
19. Regulating Quality
20. Franchising and its Limitations
21. Accountability
22. Procedures and Fairness
23. Conclusions
Select Bibliography
Index.
Published
Oxford ; : Oxford University Press, 1999
Language
English
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