'… an excellent book. It is well written, it covers a lot of ground and it is sensibly organised.' Nils-Henrik M. von der Fehr, Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy
1. Introduction; 2. Defining a theoretical normative benchmark; 3. Thinking like a monopoly about price and output; 4. Regulating a monopoly with full information; 5. Regulating under informational constraints; 6. Regulatory rules to set the average price; 7. Linking regulatory theory to practice through finance; 8. Nonlinear pricing in regulation; 9. Social concerns in regulatory design; 10. Regulating quality; 11. On the regulation of investment; 12. Regulating multiproduct oligopolies; 13. Abuse of market power in (de)regulated industries; 14. On the relevance of institutional quality; 15. Emerging regulatory challenges.