The regulatory challenge

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Express coaching: privatization, incumbent advantage, and the competitive process; conflicting regulator objectives: the supply of gas to UK industry; reforming the NHS; Regulatory reform in higher education in UK: incentives for efficiency and product quality; the impact of competition on pricing and quality of legal services; the regulation of financial services:lessons from the UK for 1992; the reegulation of British broadcasting; information asymmetries and product-quality regulation; regulation and standards policy:setting standards by committees and markets; regulation in the European community and its impact on the UK; modified regulation of telecommunications and the public interest standard; competition and regulation in telecommunications; the development of telecommunications policy in the UK, 1981-1991; the regulation of product quality in the public utilities.....