In Europe, public utilities and services - known as network industries - were once the exclusive domain of the government. In today’s deregulating environment, state monopolies are giving way to private competition - both local and cross-border. Network industries encompass not only gas, electricity and water utilities, industries such as rail transport, aviation and telecommunication but also cutting edge areas such as electronic payment systems. This means that the competitive and regulatory environment for network industries is rapidly evolving into a complex, interwoven and dynamic web that extends over the 5 continents in the world. Competition and Regulation in Network Industries explores the legal, economic, institutional and public policy aspects of the network industries.
The double blind peer reviewed journal Competition and Regulation in Network Industries (CRNI) explores the legal, economic, institutional and public policy aspects of these network industries.
Written by leading specialists, it investigates the shift from monopoly to competition, emerging problems surrounding the right of all citizens to access basic public services, and the continuing expansion of the large and relatively unmapped legal and economic terrain of the communications industry.
As these complex industries and their regulatory environments evolve, the journal will provide researchers, policy-makers, legal experts and other interested groups with a valuable information source and debating forum.
Editorial board
The editorial board of Competition and Regulation in Network Industries is formed by leading European specialists in the field of network industries.
Editors-in-Chief
- Matthias Finger (Professor Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Rolf Künneke (Associate Professor Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
Managing Editor
Marc Laperrouza (Senior Research Associate Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Associate Editors
Maarten Arentsen (Professor, University of Twente; the Netherlands), Gert Brunekreeft (Professor of Energy Economics Jacobs University Bremen, Germany), François Lévêque (Professor Ecole des Mines de Paris, Cerna, France) andUlrich Weidman (Professor, Institute for Transportation Planning and Systems, ETHZ, Switzerland).
Assistant Editor
Daniel Scholten (Researcher Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
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