This is the submission which we made to the United Kingdom Cabinet Office Open Standards Consultation. The aim of this submission is not to present new research findings, but to show what we believe are the policy consequences of recent progress in the understanding of the economics of Open...

This article discusses the tools economic theory provides for examining the implications of vertical separation in network industries. It argues that advocating vertical separation in all cases is too simplistic an answer. However, the economic profession has provided little guidance that would...