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Territorial Differences in Access and Use of Services of General Economic Interest - Evaluating Regulation from a Regional Perspective (in Spanish)
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Revuelta, Julio; … - 2011
This paper analyses the use of Services of General Economic Interest to which general access under equal conditions has been recognised as key for social and territorial cohesion by European policy-makers. In order to do so, citizens' preferences with respect to these services are analysed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014185892
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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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Law of Access to Government : Teacher's Manual (2013)
Peltz-Steele, Richard J. - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013289555
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Privatizing Public Enterprises in the European Union 1960-2002 : Ideological, Pragmatic, Inevitable?
Clifton, Judith; Comín, Francisco; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel - 2010
Privatization, recognized as one of the most important economic policy reforms from the 1970s, has attracted … governments privatized. Three dominant paradigms explaining European Union (EU) privatization put forward distinct motivations … that EU privatization was so diverse that there were few, if any, common logics. The ‘European paradigm’ emphasized the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196195
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YouTube to be regulated? : the FCC sits tight, while European broadcast regulators make the grab for the internet
Hettich, Peter - 2010
Technical innovation has bestowed us with an abundance of channels for audiovisual media providers. More and more platforms for distributing content have become available. Cable and satellite systems have significantly increased their capacity in recent years. The quality of IPTV (Television...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738335
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Institutions and the support for market reforms : a combination of individual self-interest and good institutions determines the level of public support for market reforms
Denisova, Irina - 2016
Economic self-interest and social considerations are the key determinants of public support for market reforms in transition countries. However, political strategies that rely mainly on public support for pushing through economic reforms have limited relevance if the prevailing institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471099
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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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Governance by mutual benchmarking in postal markets : how state owned enterprises may induce private competitors to observe policy goals
Hettich, Peter - 2010
Congress recently has passed the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, which leaves most elements of the current postal regulatory framework (postal monopoly, state owned enterprise) unaltered. Similar regulatory frameworks have been established in the U.S. and the European Community....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738339
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The different extent of privatisation proceeds in EU countries : a Ppreliminary explanation using a public choice approach
Belke, Ansgar; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, Friedrich; … - 2006
This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009747664
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The different extent of privatisation proceeds in EU countries : a preliminary explanation using a public choice approach
Belke, Ansgar; Baumgärtner, Frank; Schneider, Friedrich; … - 2005
This paper empirically investigates the differences in the motives of raising privatisation proceeds for a panel of EU countries from 1990 to 2000. More specifically, we test whether privatisations can be mainly interpreted (a) as ingredients of a larger reform package of economic liberalisation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003095430