Almost a decade after Argentina began privatizing its railways, resolution of the conflicts between regulators, users …

We explore the relation between the establishment of a regulatory agency and the performance of the electricity sector …

regulation. South American electricity regulators can reduce this information asymmetry by increasing international coordination … of electricity sector reform in South America-because operators control most of the information needed for effective … frontier analysis to estimate the efficiency of South America's main electricity distribution companies. Both approaches allow …

Until the reforms in the early 1990s, Argentina's public services were sick. Rationing in level and quality were the … norm. Privatization, among the many reforms introduced by the Menem administration, felt then as a cure. Argentina was the …

of the privatization that Argentina began in 1989 in gas, electricity, telecommunications, and water and sanitation … in unemployment observed in Argentina since 1993. Effective regulation can lead to a decline in unemployment, and …The economic rates of return for utility privatization projects in Argentina are very high, whether or not …

of the reform agenda in telecommunications regulation could accelerate adoption of the Internet in Latin America … determinants of growth in Internet connections and use). Regulation will work by cutting costs. Cost cutting will require that …

This paper makes the case for the return of regulation in the organization of urban bus services in developing …

problems with regulation in these countries. At the heart of the survey is the work of Jean-Jacques Laffont, who, in the last … decade of his life, set about developing a theoretical framework for regulation in developing countries. We consider the …