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Regulatory agencies : impact on firm performance and social welfare

Estache, Antonio; Rossi, Martin A. - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2008

The authors explore the relation between the establishment of a regulatory agency and the performance of the electricity sector. The authors exploit a unique dataset comprising firm-level information on a representative sample of 220 electric utilities from 51 development and transition...

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Privatization and Regulatory Reform in Brazil: The Case of Freight Railways

Estache, Antonio; Goldstein, Andrea; Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001

A variety of proposals for creating more competition within the railroad sector and in the broader freight transport sector are under consideration in countries throughout the world. Brazil, though something of a latecomer to wider infrastructure reform, has recently taken large steps in...

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Electricity Reforms in Mali: A Macro–Micro Analysis of the Effects on Poverty and Distribution

Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Estache, Antonio; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2007

This paper uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) microsimulation model to explore the distributional and poverty-related effects of price reform in the electricity sector of Mali, a poor country in West Africa. In the first part of the paper we analyze the distribution of electricity in...

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Electricity Reforms in Senegal: A Macro–Micro Analysis of the Effects on Poverty and Distribution

Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Estache, Antonio; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2007

This paper uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) macro-micro model to explore the distributional effects of price reform in the electricity sector of Senegal. In the first part of the paper we analyze the distribution of electricity in Senegal by income quintiles, between 1995 and 2001....

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Consumer surplus and the reform of network industries: a primer

Ceriani, Lidia; Florio, Massimo - In: Journal of Economics 102 (2011) 2, pp. 111-122

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"The Impact of Telecommunications Privatization in Peru on the Welfare of Urban Consumers"

Torero, Máximo; Schroth, Enrique; Pasco-Font, Alberto - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2003)

service, the privatization of the telecommunications industry in Peru led to price changes that had an impact on consumer … welfare and that may be correlated with the negative public opinion of the privatization process. …

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Utilities reforms and corruption in developing countries

Estache, Antonio; Goicoechea, A.; Trujillo, Lourdes - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2008

This paper shows empirically that "privatization" in the energy, telecommunications, and water sectors, and the … that privatization and the introduction of independent regulators have, at best, only partial effects on the consequences …

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Dealing with Demand Forecasting Games in Transport Privatization

Estache, Antonio; Trujillo, Lourdes; Quinet, E. - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2002

Privatization has increased the number of players in the decision-making process for major transport investment …

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Assessing the Impact of Mali's Water Privatization across Stakeholders

Estache, Antonio; Griffel-Tatjé, Emili - European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and … - 2011

This paper offers a quantitative evaluation of the distribution of the welfare of a water privatization experience in … privatization. Second and contrary to what is often claimed, users benefited through lower real water prices. Third, labor …

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Public ownership, privatisation and regulation: social welfare counterfactuals for British Telecom

Florio, Massimo; Puglisi, Riccardo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2006

Is privatization per se socially beneficial? Or do those benefits depend on the subsequent changes in the regulatory … counterfactuals about British Telecom privatization and regulation. In the factual scenario, the British government decided to …

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