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Utility privatization and regulation : a fair deal for consumers?

Ugaz, Cecilia (contributor); … - 2003

population, as is the case in many Latin American countries. The authors also address the widespread impact of privatization on …

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Successes and failures in regulating and deregulating utilities : evidence from the UK, Europe and the USA

Robinson, Colin (contributor) - 2004

1. The failure of good intentions : the collapse of American telecommunications after six years of Deregulation -- 2. Road networks : efficiency, externalities and consumer choice -- 3. The Enterprise Act : pluses and minuses for competition policy -- 4. Ofcom and light touch regulation -- 5....

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The Asian Mediterranean : port cities and trading networks in China, Japan and South Asia, 13th-21st century

Gipouloux, François - 2011

pt. 1. Two models of expansion without borders : the European Mediterraneans -- pt. 2. Early outlines of an Asian Mediterranean : the predominance of tributary trade -- pt. 3. The overlapping of Western and Asian trading networks -- pt. 4. The arena of re-globalisation : the second birth of the...

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Elusive capital : merchant networks, economic institutions and business practices in late imperial China

Gipouloux, François - 2022

"Offering a fresh analysis of late imperial China, this cutting-edge book revisits the roles played by merchant networks, economic institutions, and business practices in the divergence between Europe and China during the trade revolution. Focusing on the operating modes of three major regional...

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The governance of network industries : institutions, technology and policy in reregulated infrastructures

Groenewegen, John (contributor); … - 2009

, privatization or re-regulation. This affects all traditional infrastructure sectors including communications, energy, transport and …

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Deregulation and its discontents : rewriting the rules in Asia

Ramesh, M. (contributor); Howlett, Michael (contributor) - 2006

Deregulation and its Discontents examines the different ways in which the issues related to deregulation and reregulation have been addressed in Asia. The role of government in business has gone through distinct, if overlapping, cycles: regulation, deregulation and reregulation. However, little...

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Corporate governance, market structure and innovation

Calderini, Mario (contributor); … - 2003

pt. 1. Market structure, corporate governance and innovation -- pt. 2. Privatization, liberalization and R&D activities …

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Competition and regulation in the postal and delivery sector

Crew, Michael A. (contributor); … - 2008

Worldwide, postal and delivery economics has attracted considerable interest. Numerous questions have arisen, including the role of regulation, funding the Universal Service Obligation, postal reform in Europe, Asia and North America, the future of national postal operators, demand and pricing...

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Shareholding system reform in China : privatizing by groping for stones

Ma, Shuyun - 2010

-Yun Ma argues that China's privatization is not based on any grand blueprint; rather, it is privatization by "groping for …1. Introduction -- 2. Shareholding system reform as the Chinese way of privatization -- 3. Evolution of the … participation in China's privatization and the role of the state -- 6. China's privatization through listing state enterprises in …

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Reforming China's state-owned enterprises and banks

Chiu, Becky - 2006

This book's starting point is that after two decades of experiments, during which other transition economies have effectively privatised all of their former state enterprises, China is still endeavouring to find a way to reinvent and re-engineer its own state-owned economic establishments. The...

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