the infrastructure industries reform process in developing countries. Our point of departure is that, when thinking about … Recuero Virto, 2007). The first issue concerns the impact of the quality of institutions on the performance of regulation. Our …

countries for the case of telecommunications, the sector among the infrastructure industries that has experienced worldwide …

This paper is concerned with the role of political and economic institutions in the conduct of the infrastructure … concerns the impact of the quality of institutions on the function of regulation. Our review points to the fact that political …

Regulation of the cable television industry was marked by remarkable periods of deregulation, re-regulation, and re … effect of regulation and competition on cable rates. Our calculations indicate that while regulation lowered rates for small ….6 to 8.8 percent, with even larger declines during periods of regulation. Our results suggest that competition is more …

provides a description of the process of collecting data on investment in physical infrastructure in the e …

, new insight into consumer behaviour can be gained for use in the design of future regulation of infrastructure services in …Public infrastructure services have been subject to dramatic regulatory reform since the 1980s in the European Union …. Despite this ambitious reform programme, there are signs that regulation is not always working. The Commission itself has …

competition in some segments possible, the possibilities for organizing the institutional architecture of regulation expand. …

Public utilities reforms in the nineties introduced institutional and methodological changes in the price regulation of … expenditure elasticities. In general, we conclude that regulation led to a consumer welfare loss. …