• Publication Europe Europe’s energy crunch
    January 26, 2007

    The energy sector has a habit of creating surprises. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, when oil prices touched $10 a barrel, and there was excess capacity in most European countries, nobody worried much about security of supply, and bothered even less about cl
  • Presentation Europe The European Framework for Energy and Climate Policies
    January 23, 2007

  • Publication Europe Europe's energy future: in the dark
    January 16, 2007

    Published by openDemocracy, January 2007. The European Commission's new energy plan falls far short of the integrated, long-term strategy that the continent needs, says Dieter Helm.
  • Publication Climate Change The Rising Cost of Change
    January 10, 2007

    Published in Oxford Forum, Volume 3, Autumn 2005, pp. 22-23. In the twenty-first century, there are many challenges that threaten our way of life, itself the product of the enormous economic expansion of the twentieth century. International terrorism and
  • Presentation Water Water Regulation: is it fit for purpose?
    October 23, 2006

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  • Publication Regulation OXREP Special edition on regulation
    June 1, 2006

    Oxford Review of Economic Policy, special edition on regulation, summer 2006
  • Publication Regulation Ownership Utility Regulation and Financial Structures: an Emerging Model
    January 14, 2006

    Recent corporate activity and the emergence of highly geared companies in the utility and infrastructure sectors have raised fundamental questions about risk, returns and the appropriate responses from investors and regulators. A gradual revolution has be
  • Publication Environment House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee Evidence
    November 16, 2005

    This memorandum focuses on three issues: the supply/demand balance in the energy sector; the linkage between security of supply, investment and the climate change objectives; and the energy policy framework required to promote low carbon technologies. In
  • Publication Regulation The Case for Regulatory Reform
    July 31, 2005

    In D. Helm (ed.), The Future of Infrastructure Regulation, published by Oxera, July 2005, pp. 1-9. It is tempting to think that, after two decades of experience, regulation might have moved from the controversial and novel, to the tried and tested, that c
  • Publication Infrastructure The Future of Infrastructure Regulation
    July 31, 2005

    Edited by Dieter Helm, published July 2005 by Oxera. Based on the speeches of regulators and companies in the infrastructure and utilities industries, presented at the Oxera conference, The Future of Infrastructure Regulation, on March 1st 2005, this volu
  • Publication Communications House of Lords Select Committee on the BBC Charter Review Evidence
    July 5, 2005

    Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the House of Lords Select Committee on the BBC Charter Review, July 5th 2005.
  • Publication Climate Change Climate-change Policy
    May 5, 2005

    The threat posed by climate change has not yet been matched by international agreements and economic policies that can deliver sharp reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions. Although the Kyoto Protocol has now been ratified by Russia and hence come into le
  • Publication Climate Change Climate-change Policy - A survey
    May 5, 2005

    Climate change presents a challenge to policy-makers of an altogether different kind to the day-to-day business of intervention in the economy to correct market failures. It is characterised by major and multi-dimensional uncertainties (in the science, th
  • Publication Climate Change Climate-change Policy - A Introduction
    May 5, 2005

    The importance of climate change is now widely accepted. From being a research topic, it has moved to the political stage, and whilst most politicians have yet to see it as a 'greater threat than weapons of mass destruction', the main political parties of
  • Publication Climate Change Climate-change Policy - Credible Carbon Policy
    May 5, 2005

    Most developed countries have adopted targets for the reduction of carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions. Some of these are aspirational, some are recorded in voluntary international agreements, others have the force of law and are enshrined in national legisla
  • Publication Water Water, the Environment and Regulation: Changing Functions, Changing Framework
    February 20, 2005

    The objectives in privatising the water industry were multiple. The then Conservative government considered that the private sector was inherently more efficient than the public sector, that share ownership could be widened and deepened by selling monopol
  • Publication Communications Consumers, Citizens and members: Public Service Broadcasting and the BBC
    January 21, 2005

    Dieter Helm's chapter from the BBC book 'Can the Market Deliver? Funding Public Service Television in the Digital Age', published January 2005 by John Libbey Publishing, pp. 1-21.
  • Publication Climate Change Comments on Terms of Reference for the 2005-06 Review of the Renewables Obligation
    August 20, 2004

    The review of the Renewables Obligation (RO) is an important opportunity to take stock of the renewables policy and its contribution to the ambitious climate change objectives for 2010, 2020 and 2050.
  • Publication Water Water: The Periodic Review 2004 and the Environmental Programme
    February 13, 2004

    Memorandum of Evidence submitted to the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee. The periodic review of the water industry sets prices for the next five years. These prices should produce sufficient revenues to finance the functions of the water co
  • Publication Regulation The new regulatory agenda
    January 1, 2004

    Published by the Social Market Foundation, January 2004. Regulation in Britain has grown gradually and continuously since the privatisations of the 1980s and 1990s. Its growth has been unplanned, but has now reached a critical mass, attracting widespread
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