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Infrastructure and Public Utilities Privatization in Developing Countries
Auriol, Emmanuelle - 2016
The paper analyzes governments' tradeoff between fiscal benefits and consumer surplus in privatization reforms of … noncompetitive industries in developing countries. Under privatization, the control rights are transferred to private interests so … developing countries, tight budget constraints imply that privatization may be optimal for low profitability segments. For highly …
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Utilities Reforms and Corruption in Developing Countries
Estache, Antonio - 2016
This paper shows empirically that privatization in the energy, telecommunications, and water sectors, and the … privatization and the introduction of independent regulators have, at best, only partial effects on the consequences of corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747895
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Universal Service Obligations in Utility Concession Contracts and the Needs of the Poor in Argentina's Privatization
Estache, Antonio - 2017
The authors summarize the main lessons emerging from Argentina's experience, including universal service obligations in concession contracts. They discuss free-riding risks, moral hazard problems, and other issues that arise when social concerns are delegated to private operators. After...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966170
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The Distributional Incidence of Residential Water and Electricity Subsidies
Komives, Kristin - 2006
Subsidies to residential utility customers are popular among policymakers, utility managers, and utility customers alike, but they are nonetheless the subject of much controversy. Utility subsidies are seen as a way to help make utility service affordable for poor households and as an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779253
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Is the Level of Financial Sector Development a Key Determinant of Private Investment in the Power Sector?
BA, Lika - 2017
This paper seeks to assess the extent to which a country's overall level of development and that of its financial sector, in particular, are factors that attract private capital into infrastructure projects. The authors investigate these effects in a 1990-2007 dataset on the power sector in 37...
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The Pricing Dynamics of Utilities With Underdeveloped Networks
Chisari, Omar - 2016
pricing behavior. These findings have important implications for the design of post-privatization regulatory governance in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747778
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Is Debt Replacing Equity in Regulated Privatized Infrastructure in Developing Countries?
Correia da Silva, Luis; Estache, Antonio; Javerla, Sakari - 2005
Da Silva, Estache, and Jarvela describe the evolution of the financing structure of regulated privatized utilities and transport companies. To do so, they rely on a sample of 121 utilities distributed over 16 countries, and 23 transport infrastructure operators and 23 transport services...
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Impact of Behavioral Issues on Green Growth Policies and Weather-Related Disaster Reduction in Developing Countries
Kunreuther, Howard - 2017
This paper focuses on how developing countries can change the way they prepare for disasters so they are better equipped to sustain economic growth. It discusses the importance of considering the goals of key decision makers and the need to understand the perceptions, systematics biases, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974876
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Technical Measures to Trade in Central America : Incidence, Price Effects, and Consumer Welfare
Kelleher, Sinead P. - 2017
Despite the widespread tariff reductions sparked by the Dominican Republic-Central America Free Trade Agreement, borders in the region remain thick, with many hurdles standing in the way of regional trade. Although anecdotal evidence suggests that nontariff measures raise trade costs and inhibit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973259
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Welfare Measurement Bias in Household and On-Site Surveying of Water-Based Recreation : An Application to Lake Sevan, Armenia
Laplante, Benoit - 2016
Studies comparing household surveys with on-site interceptor surveys have typically accounted for over-sampling avid users in the on-site interceptor surveys (that is, endogenous stratification). However, these studies have typically not accounted for the possibility that the household sample...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748120