Includes bibliographical references and index.

Markets and regulatory policy in international perspective / Jorg Fi nsinger -- Pricing issues in the deregulation of railroad rates / Willi am J. Baumol and Robert D. Willig -- On the contestability of airline m arkets / Elizabeth E. Bailey, Daniel P. Kaplan, and David S. Sibley -- Misinformation and equilibrium in insurance markets / Paul R. Kleindorf er and Howard Kunreuther -- Equilibrium in insurance markets with exper ience rating / Howard Kunreuther and Mark Pauly -- Competition, ownersh ip, and control in markets with imperfect information / Jorg Finsinger -- An economic analysis of law suit insurance / Michael Adams -- Price regulation in the European pharmaceutical industry / Horst M. Schellhaa ss and Ulrich Stumpf -- Price comparisons of identical products in Japa n, the United States, and Europe / W. Duncan Reekie.