Competition and Regulation in Network Industries
Journal Description
The Journal Competition and Regulation in Network Industries is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that meets highest academic standards. Resolutely interdisciplinary in nature, CRNI favors articles that combine economic, legal, policy and engineering approaches. We are looking for articles that link theory with practical relevance: they should make contributions to theory and methodology development, yet always building on solid empirical research, both quantitative and qualitative. Articles that establish links between the evolving network industries and/or take into account the growing role of digitalization and innovation as well as the emergence of new network industries in the form of digital platforms are of particular interest. In addition to the industrialized North, CRNI particularly encourages articles that address competition and regulation issues in the network industries of emerging countries worldwide.
Latest Issues
Volume 21 Issue 3, September 2020
Introduction: Regulation of airports
First Published September 10, 2020; pp. 221–222
Studying the empirical implications of the liberalization of airport markets
Kenneth Button
First Published July 3, 2020; pp. 223–243
Yardstick Regulation in a Competitive Context? The Case of the Italian Airports
First Published July 7, 2020; pp. 244–274
How do firm and market characteristics affect airports’ Beta risk?
First Published July 27, 2020; pp. 297–312
Volume 21 Issue 2, June 2020
The “iPhone effect”: The impact of dual technological disruptions on electrification
First Published November 22, 2019; pp. 110–123
Effectiveness of a strategic energy reserve during the energy transition: The case of Switzerland
Paul Adrianus van Baal
First Published October 8, 2019; pp. 65–90
New digital threats to media pluralism in the information age
First Published November 10, 2019; pp. 91–109
Towards a vertically separated broadband infrastructure: The potential role of voluntary separation
First Published March 1, 2020; pp. 143–165
Innovation in regulated electricity networks: Incentivising tasks with highly uncertain outcomes
Volume 21 Issue 1, March 2020
Special issue on “The other side of the Silk Road” Chinese Investments in Latin American Infrastructures
The other side of the Silk Road: Chinese investments in Latin American infrastructure
First Published February 25, 2020; pp. 3–5
Causality between Chinese investment in Latin America and the governance indicators
L. Arturo Bernal Ponce, Ricardo Pérez Navarro, Mauricio Ramírez Grajeda
First Published September 12, 2019; pp. 6–17
Exploring the nontraditional foreign investment in Sino–Latin American relations: The Chilean case
First Published September 24, 2019; pp. 18–33
Latin America: The East Wing of the New Silk Road
First Published June 6, 2019; pp. 34–62
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Special issue of Competition and Regulation in Network Industries (CRNI) on “Regulating district heating”
In the context of decarbonization, district heating is bound to have a promising future, especially if heat (or cold) is generated from renewable energy sources (e.g., waste treatment plants, geothermal sources). However, district heating displays all the...
Special issue of Competition and Regulation in Network Industries (CRNI) on “Competition versus Sector-specific Regulation”
Ever since the de- and re-regulation of the network industries, competition regulation and sector-specific regulation overlap, in some sectors, more than in others. This special issue of CRNI will look at how competition and sector-specific regulation overlap both...
Special issue of Competition and Regulation in Network Industries (CRNI) on “Digital Public Services”
The different network industries have traditionally been in support of public policies. They often have public or universal services missions or even concrete mandates. As digitalization starts to intermediate many of the traditional network industry (services),...
Special issue of CRNI on “City Logistics”
Cities are increasingly congested. This is as much due to passenger transport as it is to the transport of goods (logistics). In response, cities – often in the absence of any national-level regulation – are trying to regulate themselves, often by putting requirements...