Materials from Conferences
Competition and (tele)communications
Delivered as part of ‘The role of competition in public policy’, Annual Westminster Conference 2010
March 8, 2010
Competition
Beesley Lectures
November 5, 2009
Beesley Lectures
October 15, 2009
Documents
Assessment of competition at Stansted airport
The CAA has asked us to consider the CC’s draft paper on the Assessment of Competition at Stansted Airport, which differs from the CAA’s own initial thinking to an extent that appears to lie well beyond a normal level of disagreement that might occur when two, independent authorities address a complex factual situation.
2. In what follows we seek to identify and understand the sources of these major differences, with a view to facilitating development of the most appropriate approach to regulation in the specific factual context of Stansted airport.
August 31, 2008
Contributions to External Events and Publications
Known unknowns: competition, discovery and the limitations of CBA
Government economic service conference July 2008
July 31, 2008
Documents
Comment on Competition Comission report: Stansted Quinquennial review – Assessment of Competition at Stansted Airport
We have been asked by the Civil Aviation Authority to comment on the Competition Commission (CC)`s paper on Assessment of Competition at Stansted Airport (ACP) and on a paper by Dr David Starkie and Professor George Yarrow in response to the CC`s paper. Our comments are on the general approach taken by the CC and by Starkie and Yarrow.
July 31, 2008
Documents
Competition in the provision of water services: Executive summary
Our main conclusion is that competitive discovery processes have potentially very important roles to play in the water sector, particularly at the wholesale level, where we know that we know relatively little about the economic value of water, including its spatial and temporal variations, and how to use it most wisely.
April 30, 2008
Materials from Hertford Seminars
Is there an end game for regulation with competitive markets
Delivered as part of ‘Is there an end game for regulation with competitive markets’, Hertford Seminar in Regulation 2000
November 24, 2000
Materials from Hertford Seminars
Competition Policy, Innovation and Technological Change
Speech to the Hertford Seminar in Regulation, ‘New challenges in competition policy’
September 27, 1996
Documents
Political Intervention versus L’Etat de Droit Economique: The issue of convergence of competition policies in Europe
It could be argued that 35 years after the signing of the Treaty of Rome, European competition policy is on the verge of fulfilling its
April 30, 1994