This paper aims to give some remarks about the regulatory choices in Italy on the main network industries, former public monopolies (telecommunications, transport, water, energy). In particular, it focuses on the main legislative actions taken by the current Italian Government and provides some...

From mid-eighties, due to the decline of public enterprises, the European integration process and the globalisation of the economies, in the utilities' sector, regulation has replaced the traditional way of state intervention through industrial policy. Consequently, nowadays in many countries...