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The European Union’s Policy on the Electricity and Natural Gas Industries

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The European Union’s policy regarding the establishment of the internal market in the electricity and natural gas industries is analysed. Two strands of policies are discussed: the first directly focused on competition; the second on the development of trans-European network infrastructures, insofar as such development is regarded as a necessary condition for competition to be effective in these sectors.

This paper is partially based on the work done by the authour within the project «Ricerca di Base: Regole del Mercato, Difesa delia Concorrenza e Razionalità delie Politiche Industriali nel Quadro Internazionale», at the Bocconi University, Milan. The author thanks L. De Paoli, F. Amman for comments on an earlier draft. Final version submitted in July 1995.

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  1. Università Bocconi, Milano, Italy

    Guido Cervigni

  2. European University Institute, Florence, Italy

    Guido Cervigni

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  1. University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy

    Mario Baldassarri (Professor of Economics) (Professor of Economics)

  2. CONSOB, Rome, Italy

    Alfredo Macchiati (Head of Economic Research Department) (Head of Economic Research Department)

  3. University of Urbino, Italy

    Diego Piacentino (Associate Professor of Public Finance) (Associate Professor of Public Finance)

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Cervigni, G. (1997). The European Union’s Policy on the Electricity and Natural Gas Industries. In: Baldassarri, M., Macchiati, A., Piacentino, D. (eds) The Privatization of Public Utilities. Central Issues in Contemporary Economic Theory and Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25255-8_6

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