Front Cover -- Industrial Economic Regulation -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction: On Industrial Economic Regulation -- Chapter Abstracts: Roger Sugden -- Part I: Government power -- 1. Is Successful Regulation Possible?: Some Theoretical Issues: Jim Tomlinson -- Part II: Economic rationale -- 2. Allocative Inefficiency and Monopoly as a Basis for Regulation: Michael Waterson -- 3. A Strategy for Industrial Development as a Basis for Regulation: Keith Cowling and Roger Sugden -- Part III: Information -- 4. Nationalization and the Background to Recent Regulatory Issues: Martin Chick -- 5. Regulators' Need for Quality Information and the Provision of Bus Services in Scotland: George Harte -- Part IV: Regulatory instruments -- 6. Regulating Firms with Monopoly Power: Chris Doyle -- 7. Regulation of Mergers: A New Agenda: Ajit Singh -- Part V: Government collaboration -- 8. A Rationale for an Appropriate Level of Regulation in the European Community: Chris Farrands and Peter Totterdill -- 9. European Integration, Transnational Corporations and North-South Convergence: Ioanna Glykou-Pitelis and Christos Pitelis -- Index.