1 - Express coaching: privatization, incumbent advantage and the competitive process - David Thompson and Ann Whitfield 2 - Conflicting regulator objetives: the supply of gas to UK industry - Evan Davis and Stephanie Flanders 3 - Reforming the NHS - Alan Maynard 4 - Regulatory reform in higher education in the UK: incentives for efficiency and product quality - Martin Cave, Ruth Dodsworth and David Thompson 5 - The impact of competition on pricing and quality of legal services - Simon Domberger and Avrom Sherr 6 - The regulation of financial services: lessons from UK for 1992 - Colin Mayer 7 - The regulation of british broadcasting - Martin Cave and Peter Williamson 8 - Information asymmetries and product-quality regulation - Norman Ireland 9 - Regulation and standards policy: setting standards by committees and markets - Peter Grindley 10 - Regulation in the european community and its impact on the UK - Francis McGowan and Paul Seabright 11 - Modified regulation of telecommunications and the public interest standard - William Baumol 12 - Competition and regulation in telecommunications - Mark Armstrong and John Vickers 13 - The development of telecommunications policy in the UK, 1981-1991 - Michael Beesley and Bruce Laidlaw 14 - The regulation of product quality in the public utilities - Laura Rovizzi and David Thompson 15 - RPI-X price-cap regulation - Ray Rees and John Vickers 16 - The cost of capital in regulated industries - Paul Grout 17 - Law and regulation: current issues and future directions - John McEldowney 18 - Problems of yardstick regulation in electricity distribution - Thomas Weyman-Jones