, the central planners launched three major episodes of institutional changes in the reform era culminating in the creation … and competitive bureaucratic landscape is bound to open a new chapter in contentious politics. We argue that the … influential role of National Development Reform Commission has undercut the institutional role and autonomy of SERC, resulting in …

even successful reforms are now associated with a degree of reform suspicion. …An extensive program of economic liberalization reforms, even when it generates positive outcomes, does not … automatically generate support for further reforms. Societies respond with strong support only after experiencing the effects of …

(SPDEM) and on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency (REMIT). I discuss issues relevant for undertaking an … evaluation such regulations. I argue that, for market performance, more information is not always better; indeed, more … information may undermine market performance by facilitating behaviour that is either not cost efficient or aims at exercising …