Publications in: Regulatory economics

Estimating Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Quality of Service in Post

Published: 2006

Crew, M.A. and Kelindorfer, P.R. (eds), Progress towards Liberalisation of the Postal and Delivery Sector, 2006. Swinand, G. and Jones, S.

Estimation of Consumers’ Willingness to Pay for Quality of Service in Post

Published: June, 2005

13th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics in Antwerp, Belgium. June 1-4, 2005.

Regulation in Environmental Markets: What Can We Learn from Experiments to Reduce Salinity?

Published: 2005

The Australian Economic Review, vol. 38(4): 459 – 69, 2005. Duke, C. and Gangadharan, L.

Valuing Assets Using Real Options: An Application to Deregulated Electricity Markets

Published: 2005

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, 17, 2, 2005. Swinand, G., Rufin, C. and Chetan, S.

Structure and Functioning of the Electricity Market in Belgium in a European Perspective

Published: October, 2004

London Economics was commissioned by the General Council of the “Commission fédérale de Régulation de l’Electricité et du Gaz” (CREG) to analyse whether, and to what extent, the current federal regulation makes the markets for production, trading and supply of electricity competitive or potentially competitive and, if not, what remedies could be implemented. The report […]

The Impact of Size-based Pricing on Mail Users

Published: July, 2004

This report presents the results of London Economics’ study for Postwatch concerning the impact of the change to size based pricing (SBP) proposed by Royal Mail in August 2003. The proposal represents a major change to Royal Mail’s pricing structure and would affect most postal users to varying degrees. The proposed price changes vary greatly […]

Empirical Analysis of Further Liberalisation in Norway

Published: June, 2004

12th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics. Cork, Ireland. June 2-5, 2004.

An Empirical Examination of the Theory and Practice of How to Set X

Published: June, 2004

This Working Paper examines the setting of the X-factor in price cap regulation. We show the US-style productivity-offset  X relies on assumptions that are unlikely to hold empirically. We propose a more direct X, where X equals the forecast of TFP growth less the difference between industry input and consumer price growth.

An Empirical Examination of Postal Liberalisation in Norway

Published: 2004

Postal Insight, Pitney Bowes, 2004. Swinand, G. and Lyons, S.

Study of the Consequences of Further Liberalisation of the Postal Market in Norway

Published: December, 2003

This Report for the Norwegian Ministry of Transport and Communications provides consultancy advice on the consequences of further liberalisation of the postal market in Norway. The study evaluates the impact of postal liberalisation, based on qualitative analysis and quantitative modelling. Under each of the models, we assess the impacts on liberation across various scenarios, ranging […]