Regulatory bodies in electricity sector are trying to find suitable methods to compensate the effects of cost reductions emerged from regulatory models used to control electricity distribution monopolies. Quality aspects have to be recognised also due to growing interest stemming from the customers. This paper describes the regulatory measures taken by several European regulators in order to im...

Alvis is a research project in the design, use and interoperability of topic-specific search engines with the goal of developing an open source prototype of a peer-to-peer, semantic-based search engine. Existing search engines provide poor foundations for semanticbased web operations, and are becoming monopolies, distorting the entire information landscape. Our approach is not the traditional S...

It is important to analyze theoretically the comparative static effects of changing parameters of the regulatory regime such as incentive power and time, and to see how the analysis depends on observability of various dimensions of quality. In this paper, we first review the theoretical literature on quality provision by unregulated and regulated monopolies. Then I present a theoretical model t...