Modern Economic Regulation

Dr Christopher Decker is a research fellow specialising in regulatory and competition economics at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies in the University of Oxford. He has extensive experience of the application of economic regulation across a range of industries (energy, water, telecommunications, transport, digital markets, payments and financial services) and has advised international bodies (the World Bank, OECD, European Commission, APEC), as well as government departments, regulators and private companies in many parts of the world.

• List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Preface to the second edition; Acknowledgements; List of selected acronyms and abbreviations; 1. Introduction; Part I. 2. The perennial question: why regulate?; 3. Is economic regulation inevitable?; Part II. 4. Principles of regulation for core network activities; 5. Forms of price regulation; 6. Regulation in the presence of competition; 7. Behavioural economics and regulation; Part III. 8. The institutions of regulation; 9. Electricity regulation; 10. Gas regulation; 11. Telecommunications regulation; 12. Payment systems regulation; 13. Digital platforms regulation; 14. Rail regulation; 15. Aviation regulation; 16. Water and wastewater regulation; 17. Conclusions; Cases and legislation; Bibliography; Index.

'This is a fantastic textbook on modern economic regulation that beautifully integrates theory and practice like no other book on the market right now, plus it provides a great coverage of the structure and evolution of institutions in a number of key regulated industries.' Christos Genakos, Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge