Privatisation of utilities is about ownership rather than control. Liberalisation can induce greather improvements in … performance than privatisation alone. Regulation id inevitably inefficient, and adequately competitive network services may … improve efficiency. History indicates that regulated vertical integration is durable so that liberalisation may be hard to …

There is a public perception that electricity liberalisation is the major cause of recent electricity blackouts. This … model and sample means techniques in a detailed examination of the effect of liberalisation and regional factors on the …, liberalisation does not have a significant statistical effect on the frequency of small blackouts. The perception that there is an …

This paper examines the course of the deregulation and privatisation of public enterprises in the UK since 1979. The UK … privatisation programme has been the most significant in the OECD involving the transfer of ownership of over 7% of GDP from the … based around RPI-X price control and the evidence on the effects of the privatisation. We conclude by evaluating the policy …

where coal taxation reform takes place against the background of privatisation of coal firms and an open economy. It finds … to commit opportunistic behaviour in the process of privatisation. The paper also cautions about potential resistance to …

Liberalisation has had a marked effect on innovative activities in the electricity industry. R&D and patenting … technologies have increased in the post-liberalisation period. We attribute this trend to increased commercialisation of the sector …