Commentaries
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Price Reviews: Compromise and Politics
23rd December 2004
Compared with the 1999/2000 price reviews in water and electricity, this time the regulators and the companies have negotiated between themselves a compromise which appears at least to have pleased most interested parties, except perhaps some customers. Unlike in December 1999, when water share prices plummeted, this time markets rallied, leaving the companies worth a bit more than their regulatory asset bases, and all the signs are that there will be few, if any, appeals to the Competition...
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Commentary December 2004
22nd December 2004
2004 has been a year for major regulatory and policy developments across the energy water, transport and communications sectors.
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Yet Another Energy Minister
1st September 2004
In the recent reshuffle, most attention has been paid to the Blair/Brown split. Almost as an afterthought a few junior ministers have been reshuffled. And, as has happened so often in the past, who gets the energy job is close to the bottom of the pile.
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Competition, but with Care
1st June 2004
Financial Times (London), September 30th
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Personal View: Time to Correct the Economic Policy Failures of the 1980s
1st June 2004
Helm, D.R., Mayer, C. and Mayhew, K (1991), Financial Times (London), November 20th
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Nuclear Review Conclusions not Obvious
1st June 2004
(Letter to the Editor), Financial Times (London), November 4th
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Personal View: Rewrite the Rules for Regulation
1st June 2004
Financial Times (London), April 7th
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Personal View: Design for an Environmental Agency
1st June 2004
Financial Times (London), June 27th
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Time Ripe for Review of Utility Regulatory System
1st June 2004
(Letter to the Editor), Financial Times (London), April 20th
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Just Don't Ask the Politicians
1st June 2004
Financial Times (London), June 30th