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A fair price for energy? : ownership versus market opening in the EU15
Fiorio, Carlo V.; Florio, Massimo - 2010
In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985907
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Privatising Network Industries
Newbery, David M. G. - 2021
Successful network utility privatisation requires incentive-based regulation that allows investment to be adequately rewarded from unsubsidised revenues while maintaining quality, and restructuring that permits effective competition for the network services. The potential for success and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319459
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Privatization and Deregulation of the Airline Industry
Czerny, Achim I. - 2020
regulations. The present chapter describes how the privatization and deregulation of airline markets has contributed to this … further improvements of aviation markets. Second, we briefly describe the airlines' privatization development around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012847321
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Why Reform Fails: The 'Politics of Policies' in Costa Rican Telecommunications Liberalization
Hoffmann, Bert - 2007
'politics of policies'. The analysis finds, however, that the failure of repeated liberalization initiatives was not only due to … policy-makers' errors in steering the project through 'the messy world of politics' (IDB); instead, as liberalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330105
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On the many ways Europeanization matters: the implementation of the water reform in Italy (1994-2006)
Asquer, Alberto - 2009
The research agenda of Europeanization is currently highly focused on issued related to what accounts for the 'horizontal' interaction between domestic actors and how these actors make use of stimuli originating from the EU. This paper aims to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266013
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Regulatory reforms in selected EU network industries
Martin, Reiner; Roma, Moreno; Vansteenkiste, Isabel - 2005
In the course of the 1990s, the EU has embarked on an ambitious regulatory reform programme for a number of European network industries, such as telecommunications, energy and transport. This paper analyses the potential benefits of successful reforms in these sectors with a focus on the price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011606180
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A fair price for energy? Ownership versus market opening in the EU15
Fiorio, Carlo V.; Florio, Massimo - 2010
In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270518
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Japan
Høj, Jens - 2004
Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth of productivity have been low in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444046
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Telecom Prices, Regulatory Reforms, Consumers’ Satisfaction : Evidence for 15 EU Countries
Bacchiocchi, Emanuele; Florio, Massimo; Gambaro, Marco - 2012
We study the impact on consumers of privatization and liberalization in the telecommunication sector for 15 EU … Countries. Policy reforms are summarized by the OECD regulatory indicators (REGREF), that consider the extent of privatization … market regulation in reducing prices and increasing productivity performances, but minimize the role played by privatization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014041584
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A Primer on the Welfare Effects of Regulatory Reforms in Network Industries
Ceriani, Lidia - 2015
Starting from an industry where production is provided by a public monopolist, we look at the effects on the consumers' surplus of a sequence of reforms in network industry. Using a simple comparative statics framework, we find indifference conditions in consumers' surplus between respectively...
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