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Jules Dupuit and the railroads: what is the role of the State?
Poinsot, Philippe - HAL - 2012
In the nineteenth century, the emergence of railroads in France resulted in new analytical issues, as they are natural monopolies. Jules Dupuit examined the issue of the operations of the railroad sector on several occasions (1853, 1861 and 1862). He would seem to have defended two contrasting...
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An assessment of Incentive Regulation in electricity networks: The story so far
Khalfallah, Haikel - HAL - 2013
such as quality and network innovation. It is in this context that incentive regulation tools are discussed and assessed in …Network regulation is playing an active role in a context of restructuring energy systems for long term transition to a … smart grid. Regulation of network companies' activities should consider both cost efficiency objectives and other objectives …
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Vintage capital and the diffusion of clean technologies
Azomahou, Theophile; Boucekkine, Raouf; Nguyen-Van, Phu - HAL - 2011
We develop a general equilibrium vintage capital model with energy-saving technological progress and an explicit energy sector to study the impact of investment subsidies on equilibrium investment and output. Energy and capital are assumed to be complementary in the production process. New...
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Improving urban transport performances by tendering lots: an econometric estimation of natural monopoly frontiers
Roy, William; Croissant, Yves - HAL - 2008
Recently, some cities decided to divide their transport network into several attractive and accessible parts (this procedure is called allotment) in order to reduce urban transit costs. Gains obtained by introducing more competition for the market should be compared with costs associated with...
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Implementing incentive regulation through an alignment with resource bounded regulators
Glachant, Jean-Michel; Khalfallah, Haikel; Perez, Yannick; … - HAL - 2013
demanding to implement, these various tools are: a- cost plus, b- price/revenue cap, c- output or performance-based regulation … implement. Lastly, conclusions for the regulation of networks are derived. A workable regulation of network relies on a …
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Employee Ownership, Board Representation, and Corporate Financial Policies
Ginglinger, Edith; Megginson, William; Waxin, Timothee - HAL - 2011
French law mandates that employees of publicly listed companies can elect two types of directors to represent employees. Privatized companies must reserve board seats for directors elected by employees by right of employment, while employee-shareholders can elect a director whenever they hold at...
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Politiques énergétiques et accès aux services urbains en réseau à Istanbul : une ambition métropolitaine au détriment de l'intérêt général
Arik, Elvan - HAL - 2011
théorie du Splintering Urbanism. …
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Efficiency inducing taxation for polluting oligopolists: the irrelevance of privatization
Claude, Denis; Tidball, Mabel - HAL - 2010
This paper studies the optimal environmental policy in a mixed market when pollution accumulates over time. Specifically, we assume quantity competition between several private firms and one partially privatized firm. The optimal emission tax is shown to be independent of the weight the...
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Liberalization in the Water Sector : Three Leading Models.
Ménard, Claude; Aleksandra, Peeroo - HAL - 2011
Our chapter is organized as follows. Section I comes back to the characteristics of the water sector. It describes some key features that may explain the slow pace of reform and that may also help better understanding characteristics and limits of that process. Then, a historical and global...
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How to Make the Economy "Embedded" in Turkey? One question, Two Contradictory Answers
Ozatalay, Cem - HAL - 2011
interests in the neo-liberal institution-building process in Turkey and privatization cases as one of the main components of the … neo-liberalization process represents its primary focus. First, it will be outlined how the privatization program was … privatization deals after the 2000's and its effects, it will be shown (1) how the import-substitution periods' contending actors …
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