-price behavior. Production is a contestable activity, but in a few countries (including Mexico) it remains a state monopoly. Gas … vertical integration--are also crucial. The authors report that Mexico has undertaken structural reform in the energy sector … Mexico, which was in turn a response to economic development and the enforcement of environmental regulations. The new …

the world, and many of them could have been prevented if a prospective market monitoring process backed by the prevailing …

world over 25 years, this paper seeks to improve understanding of the uptake, diffusion, packaging, and sequencing of power … follow through with reform plans that were officially announced. Overall, power sector reform in the developing world lags … far behind what was achieved in the developed world during the same time period. Yet, even in the developed world, the …

uptake of regulation, implementation has proved to be challenging in the developing world. Regulators were seldom as …