Six Deregulations. Liberalisation of the markets for electricity, postal services, telecommunications, domestic air traffic, rail and taxi services in Sweden (2005)

The Swedish Agency for Public Management has surveyed the liberalisation process on six formerly monopolistic markets: electricity, postal services, telecoms, aviation, and rail and taxi services. We have analysed the political governance and the outcome of this process in relation to the objectives defined by the politicians. Our survey shows that the decision- mak-ers have sometimes had fairly unclear aims and motives for liberalising the markets. Furthermore, owing to residual entry barriers and other competition-related problems, none of the markets are fully exposed to competition at present. In all six, further measures are needed for functional competition to become a reality.

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