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Comment on the Regulation of Privatized Networks: The Case of Electricity Industry

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Since my knowledge of new developments in the theory of industrial economics and telecommunications are both somewhat limited, I shall focus my comments on some of the earlier economic literature on regulation, and on some recent issues in regulation of the British electricity industry.

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Littlechild, S.C. (1997). Comment on the Regulation of Privatized Networks: The Case of Electricity Industry. In: Giersch, H. (eds) Privatization at the End of the Century. Publications of the Egon-Sohmen-Foundation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60825-4_14

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