The research agenda of Europeanization is currently highly focused on issued related to what accounts for the 'horizontal' interaction between domestic actors and how these actors make use of stimuli originating from the EU. This paper aims to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case...

This study aims to contribute investigating the difficulties to reap the intended benefits from liberalization and regulatory reforms of network industries. This issue is tackled through the 'theoretical lenses' of new institutional economics, in particular by applying the Institutional Analysis...

This study aims to contribute investigating the difficulties to reap the intended benefits of policy reforms to liberalize and re-regulate network industries. This issue is tackled through the 'theoretical lenses' of new institutional economics, in particular by following the Institutional...

This study aims to contribute investigating the difficulties to reap the intended benefits from liberalization and regulatory reforms of network industries. This issue is tackled through the 'theoretical lenses' of new institutional economics, in particular by applying the Institutional Analysis...

Regulatory reforms are often made and implemented with the aim to introduce some competitive mechanisms in infrastructure industries which were previously regulated through public ownership. The impact of these reforms on the organisation and behaviour of infrastructure industries, however, may...

The global experience with economic regulation shows that many industries which are subjected to economic regulation are characterised by persistent monopolistic features in at least some of the industry segments. Under such conditions, one or a few firms generally retain a monopolistic or...

The research agenda of Europeanization is currently highly focused on issued related to what accounts for the 'horizontal' interaction between domestic actors and how these actors make use of stimuli originating from the EU. This paper aims to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case...