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An introduction to financial and economic modeling for utility regulators

Estache, Antonio; Rodriguez Pardina, Martin; Rodriguez, … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2003

The most effective regulators in developing countriesare following remarkably similar approaches. The main common element across"best practice"countries is the use of relatively simple quantitative models of operators'behavior and constraints to measure the impact of regulatory decisions on some...

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Politics, transaction costs, and the design of regulatory institutions

Estache, Antonio; Martimort, David - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

Providing a more complete framework for assessing the efficiency of government intervention requires moving away from the idealistic perspective typically found in the normative approach to traditional public economics, contend the authors. Such a move requires viewing the government not as a...

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Sector organization, governance, and the inefficiency of African water utilities

Estache, Antonio; Kouassi, Eugene - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

. And the authors show that the institutional capacity of the country, as well as its governance quality, are significant …

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Privatization and regulation of transport infrastructure in the 1990s - successes...and bugs to fix for the next millennium

Estache, Antonio - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1999

the sector - typically in tandem with local construction companies - that feel confident they can take on regulators in …

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Processes, information, and accounting gaps in the regulation of Argentina's private railways

Campos-Mendez, Javier; Estache, Antonio; Trujillo, Lourdes - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001

Almost a decade after Argentina began privatizing its railways, resolution of conflicts between regulators, users, and operators continues to take longer, and to be more difficult, than expected. The authors contend that many of these conflicts arose because there are no rules for interactions...

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Infrastructure services in developing countries : access, quality, costs and policy reform

Briceno-Garmendia, Cecilia; Estache, Antonio; Shafik, Nemat - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004

face major affordability and service quality issues which were not well addressed by the reforms of the 1990s. The authors …

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Information, accounting, and the regulation of concessioned infrastructure monopolies

Burns, Phil; Estache, Antonio - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1998

Economists often characterize the regulation of monopolies as a"game"(between the regulator and the service provider) in which the two players do not share the same information. The regulator is assumed to have poorer information than the service provider about the scope of future efficiency...

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Macroeconomics effects of private sector participation in Latin America's infrastructure

Trujillo, Lourdes; Martin, Noelia; Estache, Antonio; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2002

inconsistent with the fiscal gains expected by many policymakers as they engage in infrastructure privatization programs. …

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Does decentralization increase spending on public infrastructure?

Estache, Antonio; Sinha, Sarbajit - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1995

It is commonly argued that when the benefits of an infrastructure service are mostly local and there is little scope … - decentralization is the most effective way to deliver service. Those services have been decentralized in many countries, and many …. Power generation and distribution can now be handled competitively by decentralized units, and parts of some local telephone …

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How concentrated are global infrastructure markets?

Benitez, Daniel; Estache, Antonio - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2005

risks of collusion and other types of anti-competitive behaviors local regulators would not be equipped to address. …

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