Preface -- Financing the public sector -- Taxation : principles, types, and effects -- The design of tax systems -- Taxation and policy objectives -- Sub-national taxation and fiscal federalism -- Issues in international taxation -- Revenue from foreign aid -- User charges, fees, and...

This study aims to contribute investigating the difficulties to reap the intended benefits from liberalization and regulatory reforms of network industries. This issue is tackled through the ‘theoretical lenses’ of new institutional economics, in particular by applying the Institutional...