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We study the impact of different regulatory designs on the cost efficiency of operators providing a public service, exploiting data from the French transport industry. The distinctive feature of the study is that it considers regulatory regimes as endogenously determined choices, explained by...
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to foster the deployment of next generation access networks, namely in France, Italy, and Portugal. In particular, we …
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We study the impact of different regulatory designs on the cost efficiency of operators providing a public service, exploiting data from the French transport industry. The distinctive feature of the study is that it considers regulatory regimes as endogenously determined choices, explained by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839257
coordination. This paper examines three persistent sources of flawed coordination: 1) a regulation versus unbundling dilemma, 2 …
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previously incurred that the regulation makes unrecoverable from the marketplace. Costs created by the regulation include …
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A third party access regime changes the nature of a railway track, rendering it less private property and more a common property resource. Indeed, if an access regime is to be successful in opening track to competitive entry, it must do this. If railway track under access is a common property...
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Economic regulation is portrayed as the objective application of clear economic theory to data in order to develop … appearance of objectivity only skin-deep? This paper argues that it is; that economic regulation is a form of social choice and … consequences of this result for economic regulation using railways as a case study, and charts some potential policy options in …
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The dissertation attempts to see whether liberalizing Pakistan’s national rail transport system will enable the latter to grow sustainably. First an assessment of existing literature on the subject was conducted. Then Pakistan’s national rail transport system is studied in a multi-facet...
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Almost a decade after Argentina began privatizing its railways, resolution of the conflicts between regulators, users and operators continues to take longer, and to be more difficult than expected. This paper shows that many of these conflicts arose because there are no rule of interactions...
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