N.E.R.I. (Network on the Economics of Regulation and Institutions) is a network launched by some Italian economists in 2009. Our aim is to foster communication and exchange among scholars and our preeminent activity is the organization of workshops characterized by a frank and friendly interaction. The field of interest of N.E.R.I. is regulatory economics intended in its broad significance of public intervention directed to market outcomes, with a special emphasis to the relation between instrum